[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12560-12561]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   55 GUARDSMEN HOLDING OFF INVASION

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, news from the front. The border war continues.
  Generalissimo Fox and the Mexican media have taken a setback in the 
illegal invasion of the United States. Illegal border crossings and 
detentions have dropped 21 percent in just 10 days. The reason: 55 
National Guardsmen on the border. Even though the Guard was sent to the 
border in a support role and as a publicity stunt to appease Americans, 
they are deterring illegal entry into the United States.
  The Mexican media, taking a page out of the New York Times and their 
hatred for the U.S. military, has so exaggerated the truth and alarmed 
the Mexican illegals about the National Guard, the crossings have 
decreased dramatically.
  The fear that the National Guard is portrayed like their own corrupt 
military has slowed illegal entry, you know, that Mexican military 
machine that is on the southern Mexican border that reportedly ``rapes, 
robs and beats Hondurans and Guatemalans that are just trying to do 
jobs that Mexicans won't do.''
  If 55 Guardsmen can reduce the number of illegals by 21 percent, just 
think what would happen if we used more Guardsmen on the border front.
  Those who say we cannot stop the invasion so we ought to surrender 
our soil are underestimating the American National Guard.
  And that's just the way it is.

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