[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3450-3451]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    DETAIN ILLEGALS IN FEMA TRAILERS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Rita was her name. She was mad and took it out 
on southeast Texas. Her winds blew, the water rose, the trees fell, and 
the homes collapsed. To the rescue was FEMA.
  FEMA said, we have house trailers to help the homeless. Well, Mr. 
Speaker, it has been 6 months since Hurricane Rita hit, and we are 
still on the lookout for those house trailers. Has anybody seen them?
  Yes, Mr. Speaker, they have been located. All 10,000 of them have 
been found in the remote hills of Arkansas. But why are they there? 
Because I have

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heard Federal bureaucrats have some comical regulation that states no 
trailers in flood-prone areas, like the hurricane gulf coast. So the 
taxpayers have bought themselves 10,000 trailers with millions of 
dollars of taxpayer money, and they are hidden in Arkansas, I guess for 
safekeeping.
  Since Homeland Security's FEMA isn't using them, I suggest we take 
them down to the Texas-Mexico border, where there is not a whole lot of 
rain and we don't have enough detention facilities for illegals, so 
that when border agents capture illegals, they can house them there in 
these trailers until they are deported back to their homes.
  We got illegals, FEMA's got trailers, let's match them up together.
  That's just the way it is.

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