[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12591]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      THE TUNNEL RAIDERS OF EGYPT

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, it seems like Indiana Jones is at it again. 
This time the search is on for the secret underground tunnels of Egypt.
  The United States Army in Texas is training Egyptian soldiers to 
locate and destroy underground tunnels used by criminals to smuggle 
arms from Egypt into the Gaza Strip. Our troops are out there teaching 
digging techniques to the Egyptians looking for the lost treasure 
tunnels of guns and rockets. We are doing this to help protect the 
borders of Israel and Egypt.
  Meanwhile, the U.S.-Mexican border is still porous for underground 
smuggling. Since 9/11, more than 40 smuggling tunnels from Mexico to 
the United States have been discovered. Last year, the DEA located a 
high-tech, sophisticated concrete tunnel 85 feet underground filled 
with two tons of drugs. Law enforcement expects there to be more 
tunnels found.
  Rather than just protecting the borders of other nations by training 
Egyptian tunnel raiders, maybe we ought to send the military to protect 
our own southern border from the underground secret tunnel invasion of 
guns, drugs and people coming into the United States without 
permission.
  And that's just the way it is.

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