[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 26, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H2801-H2802]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME VICTIMS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise, once again, to share 
stories of Americans who once were vibrant and alive but now are dead 
because Washington's open borders policies fail to protect our own 
people.
  I yearn for the day when there are no more speeches like this to give 
because we have secured our borders and there are no more illegal alien 
killings to describe.
  On average, roughly 2,000 illegal aliens are apprehended each year by 
Federal agents for homicides committed on American soil. Another, 
roughly, 120,000 illegal aliens are arrested each year for other 
criminal activity, including 50,000 assaults and 15,000 sexual 
assaults.
  For emphasis, behind each statistic is a crime victim who would have 
been spared if America simply secured our porous southern border.
  In Marshall County, Alabama, an illegal alien was recently arrested 
for first-degree rape of a 12-year-old girl. According to Marshall 
County Sheriff Phil Sims, the illegal alien had at least 10 different 
aliases, four different birth dates, and two prior deportations. In 
2008, the illegal alien was charged with DUI in Louisiana and deported. 
In 2009,

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the illegal alien was deported yet again for illegal reentry. This 
first-degree rape of a 12-year-old girl would have been prevented by 
proper border security.
  In Mobile, Alabama, Sonya Jones was recently killed by an illegal 
alien charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a head-
on collision. Sonya Jones was a teacher at Living Word Christian Center 
Kingdom Academy. One of Sonya's colleagues said that she had a smile 
that would light up the hallways.
  The illegal alien who killed Sonya Jones is a prime example of how 
dangerous asylum laws and catch-and-release policies are to Americans. 
Sonya Jones' illegal alien killer entered America illegally and was 
captured by law enforcement but then released when he lied to claim 
asylum. As is so overwhelmingly often the case, Sonya Jones' illegal 
alien killer failed to show up in court on the asylum claim and, 
instead, disappeared, leaving at least one dead American in his wake.
  Last week, in Washington State, Kittitas County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan 
Thompson was shot and killed by yet another illegal alien who legally 
entered America in Texas in 2014 on a temporary agricultural worker 
visa but illegally overstayed his visa after it expired. Deputy Ryan 
Thompson was married with three children and is the first law 
enforcement officer to be murdered in Kittitas County since 1927.
  In 2005, in Milton, Pennsylvania, beautiful 20-year-old Carly Snyder 
loved animals and dreamed of being a veterinarian. Her dream ended when 
an illegal alien forcibly entered Carly's apartment, punched her in the 
face, knocked her to the floor, and stabbed her 37 times. Carly went 
into shock and died at the scene.
  Mr. Speaker, Washington should have more sympathy and concern for the 
lives of Americans than illegal aliens. Unfortunately, Washington does 
not and, instead, puts illegal aliens on pedestals, above the interests 
of Americans.
  Mr. Speaker, Americans have every right to expect Congress to defend 
American rights, and the most basic right is the right to life, the 
right to be protected from illegal alien killings that could so easily 
be avoided.
  Tragically, Congress turns a blind eye to the lives and innocence of 
Americans stolen by illegal aliens. That is wrong.
  President Trump is right to declare a national emergency to help save 
the lives of at least 30,000 Americans who are alive today but will be 
dead a year from now if we do not protect and secure America's southern 
border. As such, I will not hesitate to proudly vote to sustain 
President Trump's veto of socialist legislation that supports open-
borders policies that aid and abet illegal aliens who kill Americans 
and aid and abet evil drug cartels that market their poisonous, deadly 
drugs that take American lives.

  Mr. Speaker, Americans who die at the hands of illegal aliens had 
dreams, too.

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