[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 4 (Wednesday, January 9, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H349]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to discuss the speech the 
President gave last night. I was disturbed to see that some people, in 
dealing with the crisis, including a leader on the other side of the 
aisle, said that some people felt that a wall would be immoral. There 
are people on late-night talk shows saying we don't have a crisis here.
  I am going to point out that 90 percent of the heroin that comes in 
this country, that kills over tens of thousands of people every year in 
this country, comes across the border. I don't see how anybody could be 
so insensitive as to say that is not a crisis and not something we have 
to deal with at this time.
  In the last 10 years in Texas alone, they have arrested over 2,900 
people who they believe commit homicide who have come across the 
border. How in the world is it not a crisis when 2,900 people--that is 
almost as many people who died in the Twin Towers--are killed by people 
who are in this country illegally? It is completely undermining our 
immigration law.

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