[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13306-13307]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NO HOME ON THE RANGE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the Sonoran Pronghorn antelope is in 
danger of extinction, so government ``envirocrats'' have prohibited 
Border Patrol from entering some wildlife areas on the range where the 
antelope play in Arizona.
  The antelope protectors have stopped construction of seven Border 
Patrol observation towers they feel are too intrusive for the antelope. 
Never mind the Border Patrol can protect the antelope and secure the 
border as well.
  And the ``envirocrats'' haven't gotten the word out to the illegals. 
Drug cartels and human traffickers and thousands of illegals trample 
through the home on the range running roughshod over the wildlife 
refuge every day. These trespassers leave trash and vehicles on the 
preserve. The drug cartels are even erecting cell phone tower stations.
  The Buenos Aires refuge, also in Arizona, is closed, being too 
dangerous for Americans to enter because it, too, has become a 
sanctuary for drug cartels and traffickers.

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  Prohibiting the Border Patrol from entering these areas is not 
helping the wildlife but endangering these areas more. You see, the 
illegals don't care about the antelope and its home on the range.
  And that's just the way it is.

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