[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               PLAYING THE FIDDLE WHILE THE BORDER BURNS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, U.S. Border Patrol agents report that illegals 
and drug smugglers are entering the United States through our national 
forests. They are setting forest fires at the border, at patrol stands 
and watch towers, attempting to smoke out the agents and divert their 
attention from the illegal crossings.
  National forest firefighters have reported seeing illegals and drug 
smugglers move right on through fires as the firefighters try to put 
out the fires. Once assaulted with rocks, cars, guns, now agents must 
worry about fires. And these arsonist illegals are not just stopping at 
setting those fires. Reports indicate some illegals have engaged in 
throwing Molotov cocktails--a crude bomb made from gasoline--at our 
agents.
  The border war has escalated. These new invaders are not the migrants 
in search of a better life, they are violent land burners who will do 
anything to invade the United States, including assaulting U.S. border 
agents.
  There is a wildfire of illegal crossings at the border, and the 
Potomac amnesty-for-all crowd is fiddling the violin of blissful 
ignorance while the border burns.
  And that's just the way it is.

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