Glenn Grothman: “We are back from our August break, and there are three issues of tremendous importance that Congress ought to deal with…”

“We are back from our August break, and there are three issues of tremendous importance that Congress ought to deal with and the press corps ought to be dealing with. I can understand, by the way, why President Biden wants to change his view over a few months ago and go for mandates on the vaccine, because these other issues are issues that I am sure would be uncomfortable for him to address, but they are important for the press corps and important for the American people to address. The first issue is: the Del Rio sector of the Mexican border is out of control. We all see the 15,000 people under the bridge, but what is the consequence of that? What is the consequence of having 2 months in a row of over 200,000 people show up at the border? The Border Patrol has to get off the border, they have to shuffle people around from the Del Rio section to the El Paso section or to the Laredo section. They have to take care of all of the unaccompanied minors coming in here, and when they do that, they cannot guard the border. Things are out of control. Not only are the agents in that area not able to focus on the area, but things are such a disaster, we are having to bring agents off the northern border to make up for the huge problems on the southern border. What happens? We wind up in a situation which not only are there more got-aways, people aren't even being processed crossing the border, but we also have a situation in which more drugs are coming off the border.…”