Glenn Grothman Harshly Condemns President Biden's Border Policies In Fiery House Floor Speech

we're waiting for breakfast yeah there it is under the speaker's announced policy of January 9 2023 the gentleman from Wisconsin Mr growthman is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader thank you we won't keep you here for 60 minutes um there are a couple issues I think that have dominated the discussion here the last couple weeks or should have dominated the discussion that I think deserve a little bit of attention today I'm going to address one more time our crisis at the southern border I'm a little bit afraid that as the weeks and months roll on people are being accustomed to what is going on at the southern border but as with every tragedy that happens in our society if a tragedy happens every week or every month we ought to talk about it every month now recently the Biden Administration changed the way we allow people from certain countries Cuba Haiti one of the Central American countries to be able to come in here but we have to look and see how many people are crossing the southern border and if we look including people coming across the new administrative fashion every month we continue to hit all-time records of people coming into the United States the most recent month available is May we are still waiting for the June numbers and there we have a total of 227 000 people crossing our Southern border if we compare that to last May it was a hundred and forty two thousand and if we compare it to the first May under President Biden it was 74 000. so things are going up dramatically but it seems as though the Press is not as appropriately concerned as they should be in other words we are succeeding in getting them bored the greater the greater the concern should be I want to point out as well that as the total number of people come across just different subgroups continue to come up we right now have unaccompanied minors at approximately 7 000 people now recently the New York Times reported we have lost tens of thousands of young people coming here we have under set we have almost 7 000 people crossing the border every month not being supervised by their parents or quite frankly every other any other adult and the border patrol will tell you that sometimes if you do a DNA test children that are coming across with people who purport to be their parents purport to be their aunts or uncles are not this should be a cause of great concern here in this chamber when children were left to spend a week or two weeks apart from their parents that was considered a major concern and something we all had to bring up but no um I believe that there is a new committee formed and one of the things we'll have to look at is what we can do to make sure that people who are entering the United States have not one but in most cases both of their parents with them it is not a good idea for the United States to be part of of a system which is causing people young people to be separate from in many cases both parents in other cases one parent hopefully we can change our policy down there a little more family oriented and the United States will not act as a kind of co-conspirator with the drug cartels in breaking up these families I think it's also important that we not only check this out when people are Crossing into our border but check them out when our department of labor finds young people as they do working maybe third shift maybe working illegally we had a Committee hearing on this wasn't publicized as much as it should have been but we find the Department of Labor expresses no interest at all as far as we can tell when they find a child working third shift when they find a child uh working in such fashion against the law they do not look for the parents at all and this is something should change if the administration was all concerned about these parents nobody can tell me if a child was working illegally working too late working at too young an age and they were an American citizen and this were found out the appropriate authorities would not be contacting the parents and wondering what was going on but under the Biden Administration we don't care and of course you're setting up a situation of human trafficking when you have children who are unaccompanied by parents that is an obvious result and we always refer to human trafficking we should frequently I think the phrase human trafficking is used to kind of niceen up the uh what's really going on and that is prostitution but in any event I Call On The Press Corps to report on the new migrants coming in in the main numbers and sometime in the next couple of weeks we should get new numbers in June last year in June we had um a hundred and forty thousand people cross across the southern border and I hope the Press Corps takes a little bit of notice as to whether one more time we hit a record for the month um right now we have not numbers for the first nine months of this fiscal year every one of the nine months has hit a high in the number of people coming here at least in recent history we will find out within a couple weeks whether we're on the 10th month in a row of record number of people coming here the next issue that I'd like to address and was touched upon this week in some of the diversity talk um is that with regard to the transgender issue it's an issue I never thought we'd discuss here in Washington it's an issue I don't think that even crossed people's minds 15 or 16 years ago there are a variety of topics that people bring up here do transgenders get to you as a girl's bathroom to transgenders get to you as a girl's locker room if they're in sports do transgenders get to play on women's sports but I think the most important issue and it's one that should be more obvious is what is society doing to reduce this problem and what they found out in Europe is that over time the number of transgenders go up and if we didn't have this obvious increase in number of people we wouldn't have anywhere near the problem in the first place now why is it going up I think the more you read one of the reasons it's going up is this subgroup of our population is kind of held up as Heroes and I would suggest that some people interested in this topic read an article by a woman by the name of Heather McDonald in which she discusses the transgender situation and the fact that all of the coverage in the press and all of the favorable comments from American politicians particularly our president of the United States referring to people who question the proliferation of the transgender movement says they are motivated by hate and fear I know anybody who's hating anybody I do think there are people who feel sorry for these people um but obviously the number is increasing the more politicians and the news media pays attention to this subgroup and makes them out to be some sort of Heroes it gives people attention and of course all young people like attention and it it gives people a sense of belonging a sense that they're part of a cause and of course young people like to be part of a rebellion of some nature but the people who are being hurt by this more than anybody are of course the people who would not have gone down this path but are going down this path it is brought to people's attention more and more this is a group that we was nowhere nowhere near as common in this country in the past and quite frankly I do not believe this is common in other non-westernized countries but that is because of these non-westernized countries it is not brought it's not discussed as something that we ought to do now I recently met with a young lady who was convinced that the reason she was unhappy is because she really should have been a boy she now credits it entirely to looking on the internet where they told her if she was unhappy and many many young people are unhappy they told her the reason she was unhappy is perhaps she should be a boy so they took this young lady and at the age of 12 or 13 they gave her powerful puberty blockers they gave her testosterone and eventually they removed her breasts she of course came to regret it I don't know what sort of doctor would look at a 15 year old knowing very well that people's opinions and ideas of the world changed so dramatically between 15 and 20 and 25 and 30 and decided to do something as irrevocable as remove this young gal's press but this is happening all the time in this country this scale was from another state but I know of two hospitals in Wisconsin who would make this dramatic change to somebody they wouldn't I don't know why money I can't imagine they wouldn't say why don't you come back when you're 23 or 24 and we'll talk to you then probably wouldn't be a good idea then but to a 15 year old um but again the reason she did it is she got a lot of affirmation on the internet people encouraging her people telling her she's a hero people telling her that she should be so proud of herself if she was going down this route I think it would be good if we would start in this chamber among politicians here and hopefully even the president in stop encouraging people that this is an option by the way if people have these surgeries they can have to continue to take medications costing a great deal every month if it were really true that this gal should have been a boy she wouldn't have to continue to take medications even after she had the surgeries but she's gonna would have to take these medications for the rest of her life I hope in the future people in this chamber are a little bit more measured in their words before they imply to people they are some sort of special Heroes by getting their sex changed so in any event these are two topics that I think I'll say the other side has not been brought up the degree to which it should be by the mainstream media and not I've brought not broughten up enough by my colleagues so I hope when we return from our break over the weekend that these issues are brought up a little bit more in the future thank you I moved does the gentleman have a motion we're moving adjournment the question is on the motion to adjourn those in favor say aye

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Published: Sat Aug 05 2023