[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 184 (Wednesday, October 20, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5689]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     REPORT ON THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we had another week go by, and I didn't 
see the Vice President in charge of the Mexican border policy for this 
administration down there, so I felt I should go down and look around 
in the Yuma sector and report back to her or anybody in the majority 
party who wants to hear.
  These are the things that I don't think we have seen in the papers. I 
could talk for hours.
  One thing, a large number of the people crossing the border in the 
Yuma sector are throwing away their IDs on the ground. And if you want, 
you can just stand there along the paths and see all the IDs that are 
just lying there.
  You have to ask yourself, why, if I am an immigrant, am I throwing 
away my ID before I check in with Border Patrol? I must be hiding 
something. It means that they can't do a background check if I was in 
the United States in the past, or, for that matter, there is going to 
be no record of when such and such a person left Colombia and comes 
into the United States. We should require an ID to come here. We should 
no longer let people throw them out.
  Secondly, I, in the past, am under the impression that people can 
test positive for COVID, check into a hotel and just leave and come 
into the country. I now know they do not require tests.
  These are two more things I learned at the border. I invite the Vice 
President to go down there.

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