Speaker. as one of the individuals who has had the privilege of living along the Mexican border. I need to highlight that a continuing resolution will not address the outrageous situation along our border. Actually. this bill does include $500 million of reimbursement to State and local government for the cost of incarceration of criminal illegal aliens. Mr. Speaker. Also. there are 1.000 new Border Patrol agents to be put at the border and also 1.500 additional INS individuals to be put at the border. Mr. Speaker. if Members had seen the rape. the main. the loss of life along our frontiers. they would never want to support the status quo. I ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. do they really want to serve the status quo. even at the cost of the type of anarchy we are confronting on our border? We keep hearing about the need to fight for crime. Let me tell my colleagues that the fight against drugs. the fight against crime. and the fight against the injustices of illegal immigration starts at our borders. and it is time we have the guts to either admit that we do not want to control the border. or we start voting for the funding so we do our job at the border.
Identified stereotypes
Associating undocumented immigrants with rape, mayhem, and loss of life.