[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 52 (Friday, March 19, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1605]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TO-DO LIST FOR THE PRESS CORPS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, we are now being sent home for 3 weeks, 
I don't know whether it is coincidence or not that we are being sent 
home when we have such a problem at our border, and we just got done 
voting on a few immigration bills.
  All of us Congressmen should have a to-do list over the next 3 weeks. 
I want to give the press corps a to-do list. Right now, our Border 
Patrol is under a gag order in which they cannot educate the press or 
Congressmen as to what is really going on. This, at a time when you 
have almost three times as many people trying to get across the border 
than at this time last year, and we have huge numbers of unaccompanied 
minors down there.
  The press should be outraged at this gag order. I have been at the 
border four times so far over the last couple years, and it is always 
very illuminating what the Border Patrol can say to us. Now, like we 
are in some totalitarian state, they are not allowed to speak to us.
  I don't care whether you care about the government benefits, the 
unaccompanied minors, the drug trafficking, the human trafficking, the 
money the drug cartels are making on illegal immigration, we should 
want to know and we can't know unless the Border Patrol tells us. 
Please wake up, sleeping press corps.

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