Glenn Grothman: “Well, it has been about 6 weeks now since Congress last met, and I think it is time to review some of the major issues…”

“Well, it has been about 6 weeks now since Congress last met, and I think it is time to review some of the major issues of the day that I do not feel the mainstream press is doing an adequate job of covering. We continue to have people stream across our southern border. The Biden administration has made some changes after 3\1/2\ years mildly reducing the amount. Nevertheless, in the most recent month available, we still have an estimated 145,000 people crossing the southern border per month. It is not difficult to go back to the prior administration and find monthly numbers 4 years ago of about 8,000 people a month. You can say that is due to COVID, but if you go back even before COVID, you would have monthly figures of about 11,000 people crossing the southern border, so we go from 11,000 to 145,000. That is despite the fact that we are pausing, waiting for another 30,000 a month to cross as they redo their parole program, so we will have an extra 30,000 from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. In addition to that, we have another 6,000 to 7,000 a month in another program coming across from Afghanistan. Why do we not talk more about this, the scope of the problem that we have--even after the reduction--10 or 12 times as many people crossing the southern border compared to the last administration? And that is just the numbers coming here.…”