During remarks on the House floor, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) spoke about the Trump Administration's deportations, and urged the President to start the "next phase" and begin a broader deportation push.
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00:00Thank you. Well, we've had an interesting two weeks out of this building, and sadly my home state of Wisconsin made the news again in an effort to remove not just any person here illegally, but somebody who had broken the law, an abuser, somebody who under normal circumstances would not be viewed favorably.
00:24We had a judge in Wisconsin stop the hearing, uh-oh, uh-oh, let's not worry about putting this guy in jail. Let's let him sneak out the back door so he is not removed from this country.
00:35This was after about a month ago, our governor, Tony Evers, nice guy, he came out with a directive implying that state employees ought not to be that gung-ho.
00:50When it came from removing state employees from this country, if they were here illegally.
00:57So we have two examples in Wisconsin alone in which elected officials aren't on the page of addressing the immigration laws.
01:06Now, I think it's important that we all be articulate enough to explain to people back home why these immigration laws are necessary and be articulate enough to explain we are not being mean to immigrants.
01:24I do not hear enough people talk about the fact that in the prior three years, and it goes up and down by a year, but if you take a rolling average, in the last three years, we have over 800,000 people every year sworn in as new citizens legally in this country.
01:42How often do you hear about that? 850,000 people who did it right, so it's not impossible to make your way under here.
01:53And by the way, that is historically a very high number.
01:57If you go back to the 50s and 60s, frequently that number was only a little over 100,000.
02:02So the number of people keep being sworn as new citizens are already eight times what they were in the 60s and 50s.
02:14Nobody should apologize for saying we're, you know, we're being mean or not letting people in here.
02:21What we are doing is if we let these people who came here illegally in is we're kicking in the face anybody who did it right.
02:29We know we have a housing crisis in this country, and when you begin to flood this country with another 10 million people, as happened during the Biden administration, given the law of supply and demand, we know it's driving up rents, making it more difficult all the time for your average American to attain the American dream.
02:50I should also point out that we have significant numbers of visas, which allow people to come here as well.
02:59We have about 900,000 at any time, temporary workers or trainees.
03:06We have over 5 million, well over 5 million people here on visas for temporary visitors for business and pleasure.
03:17As far as college students are concerned, we allow another over 400,000 people in this country on student visas.
03:27It is incredibly easy to get in this country, or not always easy, but millions of people come into this country legally and are able to do so.
03:39We do not have to have sympathy for people who came here illegally.
03:42And I think it's important that we educate the American public on that, because soon we're going to have to start the next phase where we not only get rid of the criminal element that came in here,
03:55but we have to begin to get rid of the 10,000 people or 10 million people who may have not broken a horrible law, but broke the law just by coming here.
04:04It is a complete kick in the teeth to anybody who wants to come here legally to allow Joe Biden's 10 million people who we let in the last four years stay here.
04:16One more thing I want to address, as we begin to work on Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill,
04:25I want to remind people in this chamber that right now we've got a system of benefits whereby if you are a single parent
04:39and you marry the father of your children or mother of your children, you can lose easily over $25,000 a year.
04:52In other words, the U.S. government spends $25,000 a year bribing single parents not to get married.
05:02I thought in this country we were supposed to treat people equally, but we don't treat people equally.
05:07We have an overwhelming bias in favor of keeping parents from being married.
05:13The gentleman's time has expired.
05:14And I hope the people of this chamber remember that as we put together Donald Trump's big, beautiful bill.
05:21We should not pass that bill unless we do something first about the massive marriage hatred that we have.
05:30The gentleman yields.