Five miles is enough. As I have already pointed out. it has been demonstrated by the patrolmen in the footandmouthdisease quarantine program along the Rio Grande. that they have no difficulty whatever. that they now have legal. implied authority to patrol the Rio Grande in preventing livestock from coming across. Likewise there is no question but what the immigration officers now have the implied authority against illegal aliens coming across to go on peoples land. They are doing it every day. and all this poppycock here about somebody using a shotgun on somebody. somewhere. at sometime. is the kind of a story that could not withstand a very severe cross examination. I am sure. I never heard of such things In all my life. and I have lived down there all my life. I never heard of an instance where immigration officers had any difficulty in patrolling along the river. They have been doing it for 100 years. Now what do they want to do? They just do not want ordinary patrol along the Rio Grande. that is not what they want. The immigration authorities wrote this language. and not the committee. They want authority. a permanent easement for 25 miles. to send their men day or night. 10 and 20 times a day. if they desire. to break down a gate or a fence or anything else In order to carry out their functions of patrolling the border maybe 25 miles away from where an event took place. Now. do you want to give that kind of blanket. unrestricted authority to a large group of people to invade the privacy of peoples own land. their own premises?
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