[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 41 (Friday, March 9, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H2344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                BORDER PROTECTORS UNDER PHYSICAL ATTACK

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, more news from the second front: the border 
war with Mexico continues.
  According to Reuters and NewsMax, illegals and drug cartels are 
increasing the tax on U.S. border protectors by the use of rocks, 
firearms, and even Molotov cocktails. Here is what Webb County, Texas 
Sheriff Rick Flores in Laredo says: ``The attacks against us are 
becoming more brazen. Drug cartels are telling their people to go down 
fighting and do whatever is necessary to get those drugs through.'' He 
says, ``Mexicans fire weapons from across the border at our law 
enforcement agents.'' In Arizona, illegals injure border agents by 
pelting them with large rocks and Molotov cocktails almost on a daily 
basis, according to one border agent.
  And where are the two governments? Well, it seems Mexico could care 
less what happens to American border agents since it encourages illegal 
entry, and our own U.S. Government takes the side of drug smugglers and 
illegals if border protectors allegedly use force to stop this 
invasion. Meanwhile, some in Washington fiddle the silly song of 
tolerance, amnesty and ignorance.
  And that's just the way it is.

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