[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8377]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            BORDER SECURITY

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Madam Speaker, the Federal Government's highest 
obligation is to provide for the physical and financial security of the 
people of the United States. Physical security begins with border 
security. And the people of Houston have just suffered the loss and 
tragic death of another Houston police officer, Officer Kevin Will, the 
sixth Houston police officer to lose his life at the hands of an 
illegal alien.
  I will not rest, the Texas delegation will not rest until the 
southern border is secure to protect the people of Texas, the people of 
this Nation, from the drugs, the violence, the gangs, the guns. The 
criminal element coming across the border has got to be stopped. This 
is not complicated. It begins with enforcing existing law, with using 
the resources we have at our disposal to open up sufficient beds to 
lock up every illegal alien that crosses the border. With the full 
support of the people that live along the border, with zero tolerance, 
we can do this. It's being done in Del Rio. It needs to be done up and 
down the river.
  This Congress, this Appropriations Committee, and the new Republican 
conservative majority in the House is staying focused on this vital 
mission of national security, beginning with border security, to ensure 
that no more law officers like Officer Will, no more Americans lose 
their lives at the hands of illegal aliens.

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