[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 159 (Friday, September 30, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP, AMERICA

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, from time to time we talk about the crisis 
at the border, but we still don't talk about it enough. A lot of times 
I get people saying, well, maybe these are all wonderful people, maybe 
they will get a job. It is still a big problem because you are having 
people skip in line ahead of people who are doing things right.
  But something came out in the last few weeks that ought to have 
people really mad--it maybe should even wake up the Biden 
administration, who has done so much, I think, to permanently damage 
this country--and that is news that Venezuela may be sending people 
here out of their prisons.
  Can you imagine any quicker way to ruin America than to accept people 
from other countries who are emptying out their prisons?
  But that is apparently what is going on.
  And nothing is done. We still have over 150,000 people a month 
crossing the border, even now, knowing that probably we are getting 
people who are committing crimes, heinous crimes in Venezuela, and 
sending them here, and the communist government of Venezuela, I am 
sure, is laughing all the way.

  Please, America, and, please, our comatose press corps, wake up and 
educate America that we may be ruined because we have criminals coming 
here from Venezuela and allowed to cross the border.

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