[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10446]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    LONE STAR VOICE: ALEXANDRA GARY

  (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, this week, the first National Guard troops hit 
our Nation's border. They are not carrying the same guns and ammunition 
as the Mexican military on the other side, but they are driving 
bulldozers and road equipment. They are starting a project that people 
all across the country support, fortifying our border, helping to 
prevent the invasion of the drug smugglers and human traffickers that 
blatantly infiltrate our Nation.
  Americans want to see our Nation strengthened. Mr. Speaker, Alexandra 
Gary from Riverwood Middle School in Kingwood, Texas, writes to me, ``I 
think we should stop trying to help people from Mexico come into 
America illegally. I think we should have a stronger border control. It 
is unfair to let so many people come to America illegally. It is almost 
like they are stealing. They sneak into our country and escape from 
paying taxes. They take people's jobs. The few people that we catch and 
return to Mexico just keep coming back. If we strengthen our borders, 
then no more can come in. All America needs is ideas and justice.''
  Mr. Speaker, those simple but strong ideas of justice come from a 12-
year-old, someone who has more stake in the future of our nation than 
anyone on the floor right now. And as a legal citizen, no matter her 
age, she, unlike illegals, has the right to speak her mind. Alexandra 
understands we are being invaded. Now it is our government's turn to 
understand this simple but wise truth. And that's just the way it is.

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