As a result. our officers are seeing assaults every day. The other thing that this testimony confirmed was that it is not just nice people coming across the border. it is over 10 percent who are criminals. I mean. if you stop and think about it. if you have 600.000 people coming into the country illegally who are apprehended. so it is maybe three times that many who are coming in who are not apprehended. and over 10 percent of them are criminals. you are talking about tens of thousands of people who have decided that this is a good way to get into the United States. come in as an illegal immigrant. These are not the kind of people we want in our country. When you look at the type of crimes that the people who have been apprehended have been accused of committing or have been convicted of committing. it is homicides. it has been rapes. serious assaults. drug crimesserious crimes. So not only is the border becoming more violent. but the people coming into the United States are an increasingly criminal element. and they are continuing to commit crimes in our cities. in particular against other illegal immigrants. That is why we believe it is very important that at least one group that ought not to be able to participate in whatever program we adopt is this group of criminals. That is another reason our first effort should be to get control of the border.
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Generalization that over 10% of illegal immigrants are criminals.