[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 13842-13843]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       OUR BATTLE FOR THE BORDER

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, more news from the front. Our battle for the 
border continues, and so does the hypocrisy from El Presidente 
Generalissimo Fox. So intent on tearing down American barriers, he is 
more intent on building his own, and he has taken millions of U.S. 
taxpayer dollars to do it.
  For years, Fox has taken American money as part of Operation 
BusBound, a joint U.S.-Mexican venture, to send illegal immigrants 
coming from Central America, going to Fox's southern border, and he 
wants to send them back home. But he wails when we, the

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United States, use our own money for our own southern borders, securing 
it with our troops who aren't even carrying weapons.
  However, Guatemalans, trying to illegally enter Mexico, just trying 
to take jobs Mexicans won't do, are reportedly met at the border with 
machete-wielding farmers and armed Mexican military. The old sly Fox is 
trying to protect his hen house while continuing to illegally enter 
ours.
  Why is the United States helping to protect the borders of other 
Nations while lacking the moral will to protect our own? This ought not 
to be, but, Mr. Speaker, that is just the way it is.

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