[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 41 (Friday, March 9, 2007)]
[House]
[Page H2379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CALLING FOR REAL BORDER SECURITY AND ENFORCEMENT

  (Mr. McHENRY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, yesterday afternoon in western North 
Carolina, a routine traffic stop netted 11 illegal immigrants. How do 
we know they were illegal? Because when they were asked for 
identification, they presented their Mexican voting card; and when 
asked by the sheriff's deputy whether or not they were illegal, they 
said, ``yes.''
  The sheriff's deputy called the Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
Agency in Charlotte, North Carolina, to which the reply was, ``We are 
sorry; we can't pick them up.'' So the sheriff's deputy let them go on 
their way. According to the illegal immigrants, 11 in the car, they 
were going to New York City to get a job.
  This shows in real form the need for real border security and real 
border enforcement. It also shows the need for the Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement Agency to get with the times, to get rid of this 
bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., that is hamstringing the agents in the 
field, to increase their budget.
  And, Madam Speaker, I call on the House of Representatives to act to 
make sure that we have more border enforcement agents and Customs 
agents in this Nation to make sure a travesty like this never happens 
again.

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