Session #109 · 2005–07

Speech #1090129438

They appreciate our plant life. They appreciate how the species of nature have balanced in these regions and how they have grown. and they try to enhance that. They find that 75 percent of their time. their Border Patrol officers even. 75 percent of their time is spent protecting the border. 75 percent of the time keeping illegals and illegal drugs out of the park. not a successful effort I might add. and perhaps a futile effort. but an effort that needs to be attempted nonetheless. With dozens and dozens of abandoned vehicles sitting out across the national wildlife refuge. vehicles that have blazed a trail through there and hundreds of miles of roads have been carved through that national wildlife refuge because that was the most expeditious route for smugglers to drive their suburbans and their 4wheel drive pickups and you name your vehicle. there. and there will be somebody else behind you. and the next night another and another and another. That formerly pristine desert turns into sometimes a 200foot wide path after it has been pounded in the desert with traffic enough times it turns into what they call moon dust. just loose dust that lays there in ruts in a way that you can get stuck in that dust. 200 feet wide perhaps.
Keywords matched
Border Patrol

Classification

Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Security threat Economic threat Other

Speaker & context

Speaker
STEVE KING
Party
R
Chamber
H
State
IA
Gender
M
Date
2006-05-09
Speech ID
1090129438
Paragraph
#7
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