[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 70 (Tuesday, June 6, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H3414]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  LAWLESSNESS BREEDS MORE LAWLESSNESS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, she was buried alive in a landfill underneath 
massive concrete chunks. Human garbage is what Milagro Cunningham 
thought of this 8-year-old girl who he raped, choked and left to die in 
a dump.
  Police do not know how she was able to find the strength to wiggle 
her fingers while trapped underneath these slabs of concrete. She was 
still barely alive, and wiggling her fingers was her silent cry for 
help.
  Milagro Cunningham was an illegal from the Bahamas. He was arrested 
three times by police before he tried to kill this tiny girl. Not once 
did the police detain him for trespassing on American soil. They let 
him go each time. Then he ruined the life of a child. Mr. Speaker, this 
ought not to be.
  Failure to enforce the laws of the border brings those bad people to 
America to break more laws. There are others. The Railroad Killer, 
Angel Resendez or Resendez Resendez as he is sometimes referred to, 
raped, bludgeoned, hammered, and even sledge hammered nine people to 
death. All lived within yards of railroad tracks throughout the plains 
of America.
  Small town shops sold out of pistols. People who never locked their 
doors sealed their windows afraid of this killer on the loose. The 
killer? An illegal from Mexico. He hopped trains never knowing where he 
was going, but always knowing what would happen when he got there. To 
him every border, Mexican, U.S. or Canadian meant bloodshed and murder.
  He was arrested and released numerous times. He was even arrested and 
deported. He was sent home after carrying guns, defrauding Social 
Security, committing burglary, trespassing, even pretending to be an 
American citizen.
  But the border of Texas and Mexico is no border at all for this 
killer. He was only arrested for murder after he claimed the lives of 
nine American citizens. His first known murder victim was beaten to 
death just 2 years after his last deportation. The victim's girlfriend 
was raped and beaten, but she survived and was found near railroad 
tracks.
  These deadly illegal invaders knew what they were doing, but they are 
not the only ones to track northward leaving a trail of trouble. Their 
bold and brazen border crossings and thousands of others like them mean 
12 legal citizens will be murdered today, tomorrow, and every day.
  Lawlessness on the border breeds lawlessness in the heart of America. 
And 13 legal citizens will die because a drunk illegal got behind the 
wheel of a car. That occurs today, and tomorrow, and every day. That is 
28,000 homicides by illegals since 2003, 10 times the number of U.S. 
soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  Mr. Speaker, this ought not to be. And there is more. Eight children 
will be sexually abused by illegal perverts who will cross the line, 
cross over our open borders. That is today, that is tomorrow, and it is 
every day. Lawless on the border breeds lawlessness in the heart of 
America.
  Not all illegal immigrants are criminals. But some are. And when all 
cross the border, they break the law with their first step on American 
soil. And their first crime may not be their last.
  Mr. Speaker, they are not just trespassing on our soil, they are 
laughing at our laws. They are violating our values. They are 
shattering our safety. Mr. Speaker, this ought not to be. It must be 
stopped with a sealed border, and a common sense immigration process 
that puts America first.
  And to the pandering politicians who prefer a plan of patronizing the 
illegals to the detriment of citizens and illegal immigrants, shame on 
you for your un-American policy. That's just the way it is.

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