Speech #960264291

I am surethat is due in March 1981. That is true. but it is a few years late. I am not naive enough to think that 160 or 300 or 500 Border Patrol agents are going to stem the tide. but they are going to tell the Border Patrol that somebody up here cares about them. that they are not being abandoned. They do not even have money to buy gasoline for the Border Patrol cars. I have a headline here from Laredo which says: Border Patrol Officers Siphoning Impounded Gasoline To Run Their Cars. Mr. Chairman. this amendment. modest as it is. will send a signal to the Border Patrol that we do care. We care about them and we care about the law. and until this. Congress and this administration is able to establish some kind of rational. understandable policy. this will help stem the tide and bring order.