Speech #1090137182

I have been down there with Congressional delegations that have visited the border to talk about the incursions into the United States by literally hundreds of thousands and millions of people coming out of Mexico across our southern borders from San Diego to Brownsville. But the world I know is Texas. and I am going to talk about the Texas border that I am familiar with. I want to tell you that I sat out in a pickup truck on the side of the Rio Grande In a mesquite thicket in the dark with one lone border patrolman and his electronic equipment. which was a camera that scanned 2.5 miles in either direction. a stretch of the river. right in the city limits or on the edge of the city limits of Laredo. Texas. I got to sit out there on that lonely job with that young man for a pretty good while and talk to him about what he has experienced.