[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 115 (Wednesday, July 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6509]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       BORDER CRISIS STILL EXISTS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, in the zeal to spend more money on our 
military, some of which is admirable, it is easy to forget that we 
still have a crisis at the southern border.
  Again and again, month after month, 160,000, 180,000 people are 
coming here. It should be brought to our attention because recently a 
horrific sexual assault of a 10-year-old made national news, and I 
don't believe it was anywhere near publicized enough that the assault 
was done by an illegal immigrant.
  This is what happens when we have an open border. People have to pay 
a horrible price for the laxness here. In addition, of course, to the 
sexual assault, we have the 110,000 deaths by illegal drugs in this 
country, and the current administration doesn't seem to care at all.
  It is time in this plethora of spending bills to have dramatic 
increases in the number of people at the border as well as to go back 
to the stay in Mexico policy.

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