Speech #1000150538

Chairman. not very often do I rise to speak on this floor unless it is something that is very. very. very important to me. I guess you would try to wonder how you say something different that has not already been said. But maybe we look at it from the regions of the country. the South. the Southeast. the Southwest. the people that really have the refugees that flow into their part of the country. the people that are fleeing communism to come to America. And you look at it and you talk with them and you see the need. Maybe we will be the first part of the country affected. but our plea is to the rest of the country that you support us. that you see we are closest to the problem. that we understand what is going on in Central America. that we are worried about Communists coming through Mexico. that we are worried about refugees flowing into the bayous of south Louisiana or the refugees going Into Florida or Arizona or California. Maybe we do not believe what our forefathers believed and that is that freedom is something that we have to give a lot to accomplish. but I still believe that. I hope that a majority of the people on this floor believe that we must obtain freedom and support freedom at whatever the cost may be. whether it be in Asia.