CINCINNATI — The variety of folks illegally getting into the U.S. is nearing a document, and immigration authorities say they arrested greater than 172,000 migrants on the southwest border final month.
Congressman Brad Wenstrup, the Republican representing Ohio’s 2nd District, is on the brink of head to the united statesMexico border Friday with the GOP Medical doctors Caucus.
In an unique interview with WCPO 9, Wenstrup mentioned he’s hoping to seek out solutions about what he calls a “humanitarian disaster” on the border.
“I am searching for a number of the issues I introduced up: The place are folks coming from? Why are they coming right here? You already know, what’s it that they are leaving that makes them come to America? Who’re they paying to get them into America? That is one factor, and then you definitely wish to attempt to discover options to their issues,” Wenstrup mentioned.
With the Medical doctors Caucus, he’s wanting ahead to studying what legislators can do to “negotiate change all through the world.”
“We’re positively very excited by how persons are being managed from the well being care standpoint; what dangers are (immigrants) themselves by means of this complete course of and after they get right here, and what dangers are they to our fellow Individuals as they enter the nation.”
A few of Wenstrup’s colleagues, together with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), visited border services over the previous a number of weeks. After his go to, Manchin remarked that immigration has been a problem for many years, and partisan politics received’t clear up it.
“It will not get solved if we’re simply pointing fingers, you already know, however we do wish to study finest practices, proper?” Wenstrup mentioned. “If there’s issues that we are able to take away and say, effectively, the Trump administration did this — and neglect, neglect who did it — however this was performed beneath the Trump administration, and that labored, and it labored effectively for the folks concerned.”
“Perhaps it does not work, or perhaps one thing the earlier administration did that did not work. These are the issues we now have to debate overtly.”
