[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 215]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    BORDER PATROL AGENTS ON THE MOVE

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, more Border Patrol agents are being 
sent to the southern border. The border is violent, desolate, and 
dangerous. Drugs and people are going north. Money and weapons are 
going south. And the border is a war zone.
  Madam Speaker, I'm not talking about the southern border of the 
United States with Mexico. No. I'm talking about the Afghanistan-
Pakistan border. That's correct. Secretary of Homeland Security 
Napolitano has said, ``We are going to contribute Border Patrol agents 
to protect the border of Afghanistan.''
  Now, why is Homeland Security making this uninformed decision? Our 
southern border is a war zone and our Border Patrol agents are needed 
there. In fact, they need more help. We should send more National Guard 
troops there to help them stop the invasion of the violent drug 
cartels.
  Homeland Security should protect our homeland, not somebody else's. 
This ill-advised move by the Department of Homeland Security shows how 
blissfully ignorant Washington is about reality and the battle on the 
third front, the southern border of the United States.
  And that's just the way it is.

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