[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 70 (Thursday, April 28, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4603]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





               FAILED BORDER POLICIES THREATENING AMERICA

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, yesterday, upon returning to my office, 
I heard testimony from Secretary Mayorkas from Homeland Security saying 
that he inherited a mess at the border and that he is doing the best he 
can.
  The American public ought to know what the numbers are. Two Marches 
ago, between got-aways who weren't vetted by the Border Patrol and 
people who were vetted by the Border Patrol, about 11,000 people a 
month were coming here. A year ago in March, it was around 60,000. We 
are right now at 153,000.
  When you inherit a March with 11,000 and 2 years later you are at 
153,000, you have not been doing the best you can.
  This is threatening the end of America. It signals that America is 
very weak. I have felt all along the policies at the southern border 
are one of the reasons we have to deal with Ukraine right now, because 
no normal leader would allow this many people to cross the border.
  In any event, I urge my colleagues, anybody who has the ear of 
Secretary Mayorkas or the President, to point out that when you go from 
11,000 to 153,000 people a month in 2 years crossing the border, you 
have failed and something has to be done.

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