Speech #1090137187

But at least we need 18.000 or 20.000. And we are going to get there. And we are going to. according to the House version of immigration reform to secure the border. we are going to build facilities and have more bed space so that we can retain these illegal immigrants that are referred to as OTM. that acronym that stands for Other Than Mexicans. that we have been catching and releasing in that catchandrelease program. I think the whole point here is history: if you do not pay attention to it. you are going to repeat it. and you are going to make the same mistakes over and over again if you do not learn from the past. We can go back. my colleagues have probably already done that in the earlier part of the aisle.