Americans Need to Wake Up

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Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, America has to realize we are on the precipice of making one of the most significant precedential determinations in recent memory, and that is the removal of Title 42 affecting American immigration law.

Already we are allowing--depending on the month--between 80,000 and 100,000 people to cross our border who are not appropriately vetted.

However, due to a title put in effect by President Trump, we are keeping another perhaps 400,000 people a month--we are told 18,000 a day--south of the border out of concern that they will bring the virus in this country.

If this title is removed, we will go--according to current estimates--to 18,000 people a day: a half a million people a month coming in this country. That is an intolerable amount. They are people we cannot support. They are people who have not been appropriately vetted. And, obviously, there will be a massive increase in illegal drugs crossing our southern border.

I beg the American public to wake up and do what you can to make it clear to everybody in this body that we do not need a massive increase over the already intolerable 80,000 to 90,000 people who are coming here every month unvetted.

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