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I should correct myself. They are already in the United States illegally. The border patrol does not go down into the area of the soccer field because the illegal aliens can so easily get back to the Mexican side of the border before the border patrol can even be there. So the border patrol stands on high hillsides. looking down with binoculars. counting the people. trying to figure out what routes they are going to take. Members of Congress should stand on the border and see the Border Patrol officers standing there. with certain types of night scopes. so that they can see people identified by the heat given off by their bodies as they come across in the night. Sometimes officers can look out through those scopes and it looks as though the whole area is heated up. there are so many people coming across. Some Members should come down with me to the border in El Paso. standing next to the Rio Grande River. and see as people come up the river bank. Many of these people wait for the Border Patrol car to go by and proceed down the levee about a mile. and then they come across. Members should see people who carry others across for a fee. across the Rio Grande at that point. where it is no more than thigh deep. and see that these people are making their entire living by carrying person after person after person across. Indeed. things are not getting better.