[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18297]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE LAND OF LAWLESS DAYS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the border war continues to 
escalate. Over 2,200 people have been killed just this year in drug-
related violence in Mexico. The battles are spilling over into American 
communities. The drug cartels are shooting their way across the Rio 
Grande River. The Federal Government's answer is to put up danger 
signs: ``Warning, Keep Out of Parts of America. It's Just too 
Dangerous.'' And now there are reports that the handful of National 
Guard troops on the borders are going to be reduced. That is no answer.
  The National Guard Border Enforcement Act will change all that. It 
will authorize 10,000 National Guard troops to be put on the border. 
The troops will be paid for by the Federal Government under the 
supervision of the Border Of Governors. Now that's a plan we can live 
with. Otherwise the border war will continue in the valley of the gun 
and the land of lawless days.
  And that's just the way it is.

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