U.S. Representative Rose Addresses December 2022 Border Numbers
Washington, DC—U.S. Representative John Rose (TN-06) recently spoke on the House Floor to highlight the record-number of encounters reported along the U.S. southern border from December 2022.
The full speech, as prepared for delivery is below:
Mister Speaker, the Biden Administration continues to fail the American people.
Just last month, Customs and Border Protection had 251,487 migrant encounters along the southern border—the highest number of encounters ever recorded in a single month. Despite our constant calls to get this crisis under control, it has only gotten worse. Either President Biden is trying and utterly failing, or worse—not trying at all.
Since President Biden has taken office, there have been more than 4.5 million migrant encounters at our southern border, and December marked the 10th straight month with more than 200,000 encounters—a trend that has never been recorded before. None of these statistics include the over 1.2 million known gotaways who have evaded our overwhelmed U.S. Border Patrol agents.
Mister Speaker, I rise for all Middle Tennesseans to say, Mr. President, please do your job and secure our border.
You can watch the full speech here.