[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11398]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    LONE STAR VOICE--C.E. CUNNINGHAM

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, down on the Rio Grande where the sage brush and 
mesquite trees line the lawless border of the riverbank is the home of 
generations of Texas ranchers. Their homes, feet from the porous 
border, they wake up to human smugglers, drug runners and thieves that 
have trespassed on their soil.
  On the border I met crusty rancher, C.E. Cunningham of Quemado, 
Texas. He has lived on the land for seven decades, and he now writes me 
about the southern border invasion into America: ``We have had our 
livestock, wildlife killed, vehicles, tools, equipment stolen. I had to 
move my mother out of her own home when three illegals stole and robbed 
her. I have taken weapons away from thieves. I have seen the Mexican 
Army camped out on the riverbank, and I have seen their tracks on our 
side. I have tried to get the Mexican Government to help with the 
thieves, but they told me it was best they stole over here instead of 
Mexico. It seems to me the Mexican government sanctions these crimes 
against us.''
  Mr. Speaker, Americans like C.E. Cunningham want their lives back, 
their land back, and their security back. We have to stop letting the 
Mexican Army and Generalissimo Fox invade the United States by 
encouraging illegal entry into our country.
  And that's just the way it is.

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