[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 60 (Tuesday, April 9, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  INVASION ACROSS OUR SOUTHERN BORDER

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Speaker, we haven't been in Congress for 2 weeks 
now, but the number one issue in the country remains what it was 2 
weeks ago because the President of the United States refuses to act and 
that, of course, is the invasion across our southern border.
  Around the time we left, we had new estimates on the number of people 
who have come over here. They are estimates because nobody knows 
exactly the number. We estimate that about 40,000 to 50,000 of the 
people who come across every month are what they call got-aways. Due to 
a shortage of people in the Border Patrol, we do not even count them or 
interview them or know much about them. Our estimate is that in 
February, we had about 220,000 people come here. That was down from 
December, but still about 10 times the number who came across in Donald 
Trump's final February of his term.
  We have 10 times as many. We estimate about 9,000 to 10,000 of those 
are unaccompanied minors. This is a crisis that demands immediate 
attention from the White House and, quite frankly, a little more 
attention from this body. It dwarfs all the other bills we have here. I 
hope that Congress now deals with this issue.

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