Speaker. here I have a map of the Caribbean islands. Puerto Rico is a part of the United States. the location: in the Caribbean islands next to the Dominican Republic. southeast of Cuba. east of Jamaica. It has earned a reputation among border patrol agents as Americas biggest threat. This is not a photo. the second one here. of Americans storming the beach at Iwo Jima or Normandy. Mr. Speaker. this is a photograph of 100 illegal immigrants with landing craft storming the American beaches in a yola. a homemade wooden boat. The boat is from the Caribbean islands. Its cargo. Dominicans. Middle Easterners and others from the islands. The Border Patrol says when people storm the American beaches here in Puerto Rico. they capture maybe one out of 10. And here we have a Blackhawk helicopter. at this particular time. having to view this firsthand. One U.S. Border Patrol agent says he interviews the survivors of these ill fated trips. and they say they are coming to America for that free amnesty. Once they get to Puerto Rico. they can go anywhere in the United States with only a birth certificate or an easily forgeable photographic ID. if the one Border Patrol agent at the San Juan airport happens to ask for that identification. We must remember that one of the 9/11 hijackers made his way into the United States through the Virgin Islands. Then he took flight lessons at San Juan.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that undocumented immigrants are "storming" beaches and are a threat.