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DO NOT FORGET THE SOUTHERN BORDER CRISIS
(Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.)
Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, as we head into the 6-or 7-week break, it is important that Americans and Congress not forget the number one crisis facing this Nation, and that is the takeover of our southern border by Mexican drug gangs.
Right now, the drug gangs, because we are kind of tardy at guarding the border, escort people into Mexico, escort people through buses and trains to the Rio Grande River, put wristbands on these people so they know which gang they are associated with and which type of tour they bought, and have them carry drugs across the Rio Grande.
If our Border Patrol tries to stop people crossing the river, they throw little children in the Rio Grande so our Border Patrol has to go there. They eventually turn these people over to Border Patrol on the southern border, where they are turned over to nongovernmental organizations that put them in hotels. These hotels are not secure, so even if you have COVID, you are let out into the country.
They hold relatives hostage in Central America and Mexico so that the people who come here have to pay money to get their entry into this country, from $3,000 to $20,000.
Please do not forget what is going on at the border in the next 7 weeks.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 134
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