[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10585]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    ADMINISTRATION MISSING IN ACTION

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, the Federal Government is missing in 
action on American border security. Our ineffective border security 
plan seems to be one of compassionate disinterest or catch them if you 
can.
  Last week there was not another violent incident at the border near 
El Paso, Texas. This time a lone Border Patrol agent spotted a group of 
Mexican nationals crossing the border illegally. The agent was able to 
apprehend one of the illegals, but four illegals began assaulting the 
sole law enforcement officer with rocks. His life was in danger, and he 
defended himself. One of the assailants was killed, however; an 
assailant with a long criminal history of smuggling.
  Our law enforcement agents have the moral and legal right to defend 
themselves, and they have the right to defend the American border.

                              {time}  1945

  The Mexican military showed up at the scene, however. They pointed 
their rifles at the American law enforcement agents. So what did they 
do? Did they stand their ground? Did they protect the sovereignty of 
the United States of America? No. Our Border Patrol agents retreated. 
They fled. And why? Because the Federal Government doesn't back up the 
Border Patrol.
  The government hangs them out to dry. Just ask Border Patrol agents 
Ramos and Compean. Washington only gives lip service to securing the 
border. The government tells our Border Patrol to go down there on the 
border and kind of pretend to enforce the law. They don't receive the 
support they need to secure the border. They don't get the necessary 
manpower or the necessary equipment. They don't receive the necessary 
moral support from the government. The government doesn't back up their 
right to protect themselves when their lives are in danger. The Federal 
Government, Mr. Speaker, is missing in action.
  But right on cue, Mexican President Calderon arrogantly demanded an 
apology for the shooting. But Calderon didn't apologize for the 
shooting of Robert Krentz, the Arizona rancher who was murdered in 
America on his own property by a Mexican criminal alien.
  Calderon didn't apologize for the execution-style murder of Border 
Patrol agent Robert Rosas in Campo, California. Calderon didn't 
apologize when Senior Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was murdered in 
America, run down and run over by a Mexican narcoterrorist drug 
smuggler in a Humvee.
  Where's Calderon's outrage over the Americans being killed all the 
time in America by illegals from Mexico? Where's Calderon's apology for 
the criminal alien murderer of Houston Police Officer Rodney Johnson? 
Officer Johnson was a 12-year veteran of the Houston police force. He 
was married, had five kids, and Officer Johnson was shot four times 
execution-style by a Mexican illegal with a criminal record when he was 
stopped for speeding.
  Where was Calderon when Houston Police Officer Gary Gryder was killed 
by an illegal in 2008? Or when Houston Police Officer Henry Canales was 
murdered by an illegal just last year? Americans are frequently killed 
in America by Mexican illegals. And why doesn't our government demand 
an apology about these homicides? Why doesn't our government demand 
compensation from Mexico for the homicides their illegals commit in the 
United States?
  And where's the State Department? Where's the outrage, the concern 
when it's an American that loses their life, cost their lives by the 
actions of illegals from Mexico? Where's that demand for an apology? 
And where's the administration? Missing in action, that's where.
  Where's your outrage, Mr. President? The President should be on the 
American side of the border, doing what's best for America. And why 
don't we protect our own? How hard would it be for the President of the 
United States just to say, Don't cross the American border without 
permission? Why doesn't he say that? Doesn't he believe those words?
  Mexican criminals think they can come over here and do as they please 
and nobody's going to really do anything about it. And they're right. 
Did we send our Attorney General out to demand answers when Border 
Patrol agent Rosas was shot execution-style last year? Where was the 
Attorney General? Missing in action.
  And American citizens and peace officers are losing their lives 
because the government is missing in action. Seems like our government 
is more interested in what Mr. Calderon thinks than the American 
people. Mr. Calderon should take care of his own lawless country and 
Mr. Obama should take care of our borders. The administration, this 
administration, is not the first to be ineffective in border security, 
but it certainly should be the last.
  And that's just the way it is.

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