Sixth District Congressman Glen Grothman is joining fellow Republicans questioning the timing of Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit today to Wisconsin while not yet having toured the U.S. Mexican border.
In a statement Grothman says “Illegal crossings and encounters at our Southwest border have skyrocketed reaching more than 172,000 in March –a fifteen-year high for the month. That averages over 5500 people per day in addition to an estimated 1000 people coming across (the border) without any contact from U.S. Personnel.”
The local lawmaker who serves Manitowoc County in his constituency continues, “I’ve visited the border three times since the beginning of 2020 and can confidently say that you can’t truly know the scope of the crisis (at the border) much less attempt to solve it without talking to law enforcement and citizens living there who experience this crisis on a daily basis. This is the biggest crisis facing the United States today.”
President Biden tapped VP Harris to lead White House efforts to resolve the crisis at the border. The Vice President was in the Badger State today (Tuesday) touring clean energy laboratories on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus and touting President Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan.
