[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 203 (Monday, December 11, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H6804]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                THE THREAT CROSSING THE SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to remind the American public and 
my colleagues one more time of the biggest threat we face today, and 
that is the huge volume of people crossing our southern border.
  Again, in the most recent month available, we made an all-time record 
of the number of people coming here, about 11 times the number of 
people crossing the border as were crossing the border just 3 years 
ago.
  Don't let anybody tell you we have got to work on some solution. The 
solution was there. Just a little bit of will, and you could cut it by 
91 percent.
  Above that, don't forget, over a million people are sworn in legally. 
Don't let anybody ever tell you that we have a problem, and we have got 
to get more people here. A million people per year come here legally.
  Don't forget that during the Trump administration, when Trump was 
criticized for not deporting enough criminals from this country, we 
were deporting about four times the number of people here today.
  The American public has to wake up and tell this body to get in gear 
and do something about this illegal immigration.

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