Sixth District Congressman Glenn Grothman plans to travel to the U.S. Mexico border this month.
He told Seehafer News that “you really have to talk to the Border Patrol to find out what’s happening on a daily basis. The higher-ups give you the spin and not the facts.” Grothman said he expected the crisis at the border to get worse under the new administration, but “not this quickly.”
Grothman is concerned about many things there-one of which are illegal immigrants coming across without being tested for COVID-19. He said, “For an Administration that pushes us (U.S. citizens) to mask up everywhere to protect everyone, which is fine if one chooses to wear a mask, it seems that they’re kind of going in the opposite direction and not being concerned if anyone who’s infected crosses the border.”
Another major problem he has with the immigration issue is the transporting of illegal drugs. “Most of the drugs coming across the border ten years ago were marijuana,” Grothman explained. “Now that it’s legalized to use and grow in a majority of states, drug cartels are still going to want to make money. Border Patrol agents are discovering more fentanyl, methamphetamine, and heroin crossing the Southern border which is a disaster in its own right.”
Approximately 100,000 illegal immigrants are crossing the border into America each month. The local legislator supports a person becoming a U.S. citizen by going through the legal channels but emphasizes that if the Biden Administration doesn’t get control of the situation soon “The United States will never be the same.”
