[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             THE BORDER WAR CONTINUES ON THE SOUTHERN FRONT

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, on December 14, Border Patrol Agent 
Brian Terry was murdered in Arizona by bandits crossing into the United 
States. Border agents approached armed invaders carrying AK-47s. A 
shootout occurred where Terry was shot and killed. Now, there is 
evidence that Terry and possibly other agents fired first to defend 
themselves by firing bean bags at the outlaws before using live ammo. 
Documents indicate that the agents were required to fire first with 
non-lethal bean bags before using live ammo. Allegations also show the 
AK-47 used by the bandits to kill Terry was a gun the ATF had allowed a 
smuggler to buy in an apparent sting operation and take to Mexico.
  The idea that when armed bandits invade the United States our border 
agents must fire bean bags is nonsense and no way to protect them or 
the Nation. You don't take bean bags to a gunfight. And if the guns the 
bandits used came from our government in some type of undercover sting 
operation, that is sickening and reprehensible.
  And that's just the way it is.

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