[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          IT GETS ``WESTERN''

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, after spending last week with the Terrorism 
Subcommittee hearing testimony from the people who live and work on our 
southern border, the realization of the problem for failure to protect 
the border from invaders was dramatically told by border agents, local 
law enforcement, and citizens.
  Those who pretend we have no insurgency into America live in the 
Never Never Land of ignorance. Testimony showed that individuals in 
Mexican uniform, driving Mexican vehicles, still cross into our soil. 
Human smugglers and narcoterrorists operate fearlessly on our southern 
border.
  Border Patrol Chief Reynaldo Garza put it clearly, ``We do not have 
control of our border.'' This phrase should alarm even the border-
appeaser crowd who take the side of illegals over Americans.
  Former Texas Ranger Doyle Holdridge put it best when discussing what 
it is like on the Texas-Mexico border after sunset. He said, ``It gets 
western.''
  Yes, it is lawlessness on this border that breeds violence, gunfire, 
drug trafficking, human smuggling and is a ripe place for terrorists to 
operate. It will continue to get western on our border until border 
security becomes a national security issue.
  And that's just the way it is.

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