Glenn Grothman: “It is our first week back from what I guess we refer to as Christmas or winter break, and at least 60 of us Republicans…”

“It is our first week back from what I guess we refer to as Christmas or winter break, and at least 60 of us Republicans spent a couple days down at the Texas border to analyze one more thing, the complete disaster that we have going on with regard to what I will refer to as illegal immigration. I will summarize one more time for the American public and for my colleagues what we find when we go down there. First of all, it is apparent, in December of 2023, we will one more time hit an all-time high in the number of people who are let into our country. We are going to clear 300,000. I remind the body that, as recently as 3 years ago, that number, the monthly number, may have been 5,000 or 10,000. So we have gone up by a factor of 30 times as many people crossing the border. Sometimes comments out there made by the President imply that it is going to be very, very difficult to find a way to prevent 300,000 people from crossing the border every month. I remind the American public, without Congress doing anything, the prior administration had that number under 10,000. I also want to point out these people are coming from all around the globe. We were down in the Del Rio sector, the Eagle Pass entryway. Now, we are just talking here about people who formally check in with the Border Patrol. In the 33 days prior to us coming down there, people came in from 61 different countries.…”