[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 186 (Thursday, December 1, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       CRISIS ON SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I use this opportunity to try to wake up 
our slumbering press corps on another very relevant story related to 
the southern border.
  In the last week, it became apparent that, in the last month, 73,000 
illegal immigrants snuck across the border without touching the Border 
Patrol.
  So you understand, when you hear these numbers, 150,000, 180,000 
people crossing every month, most of those people are people that are 
at least touched by the Border Patrol before they are given an 
appearance date at which they have to appear before some judicial 
forum. But there are also people who sneak across the border without 
being touched by the Border Patrol.
  We had 70,000 gotaways in November. That is the all-time high--
without any perfunctory analysis at all, 73,000.
  The border crisis is the greatest it has ever been. I beg the press 
corps in this country to wake up. That 73,000 figure ought to be the 
banner story in every newspaper across the country. We know that most 
of those papers won't even cover it. They are off covering some 
Hollywood floozy.

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