Speech #820226656

I had occasion to visit the lower Rio Grande Valley with members of my committee. We were there only 24 hours. but in that short period of 24 hours we learned enough to be able to prove that the opposition to law enforcement along the border in Texas is not as it is represented here to be. I am now going to include with my remarks the names of some of the persons in the lower Rio Grande Valley who have shown their contempt for our Federal immigration laws and at the bottom of the picture you will find the almighty dollar. We had a good look at the lower Rio Grande Valley. including an airplane ride at quite low altitude. and we saw these Mexican people. men and women. crossing the Rio Grande River in order to obtain work. We happened. also. to visit a shed. not a Federal prison as referred to awhile ago. but a shed which our Immigration and Naturalization Service uses as a detention headquarters at McAllen. Tex. In that shed. in my presence. a farm foreman paid a young. dimwitted. ablebodied Mexican five $1 bills for a weeks work on a farm picking tomatoes.