Invasion Across Our Southern Border

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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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