[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 195 (Thursday, December 15, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H9885]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     CRISIS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, just a few minutes ago on this floor, we 
were admonished for not wrapping up our budget in time. That is a fair 
thing. We are supposed to take care of our budget.
  Another thing we are not taking care of, and the American public 
ought to be appalled until we do, is the new news on the border. I 
talked to a prior expert down there and got even more terrifying 
information.
  Now, first of all, in November, we had 73,000 what they call got-
aways, people not even touched by the Border Patrol, breaking the 
previous all-time high by 24 percent in one month.
  Isn't that something we ought to come back next week to take care of?
  Not only that. I had suspected this, but apparently the Border Patrol 
is concerned about where the unaccompanied minors are winding up. These 
are minors who come here without their parents. All they have is an 
address. We don't confirm--or they believe we don't confirm--that 
parents or aunts or uncles or somebody is at that address or if they 
show up at a house and maybe there are 10 single males in the house, a 
young woman--we don't even know.
  It is time this place began to do some committee hearings on where 
the unaccompanied children, who should be spun back around to their 
home country, wind up.

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