Glenn Grothman: “The next issue I think is the most important issue facing the United States today, and that is the illegal immigration…”

“The next issue I think is the most important issue facing the United States today, and that is the illegal immigration across our southern border. We have new numbers that came out for October. Again, we hit records, as far as the number of encounters, of people coming across the southern border. The most recent number shows 241,000 encounters at that border, up from 1 year ago at 231,000; up from 2 years ago at 164,000; up from 3 years ago at 72,000 when we had a different President. So again, we hit records on the number of people who are coming here. We have 71,000, what they call got-aways, which are people who come across the border and do not check in with the Border Patrol. Most people who come across the border ask for asylum. They don't need asylum but at least they ask for it, and there is a perfunctory check on things. We hit another near high of almost 62,000 got-aways who won't even check in and ask for asylum crossing the southern border. This is a disaster waiting to happen. You are permanently changing America. Our forefathers anticipated that America be a country for a moral and religious people. We have no idea what the background of these people is. Are they going to stand with our Constitution? Do they understand the natural ideal that our forefathers wanted independent people coming here, not people who would view the government as giving something to them?…”