Speech #1090156413

Mr. DELAHUNT. lets play a game. Lets see which caucus is really for border security and which conference is playing "lets pretend." And we will deal just with facts here. just with factual information. unlike what they do. which is either. A. make it up as they go along. or. B. say something that is not true enough times so that people believe it. or. C. just pick and choose the numbers that work best for them and represent that they are doing something when they are really not. So any of those three things is what happens on the other side. Here is the reality on border security. Democrats versus Republicans: From 1993 to 2000. under the Clinton administration. on average. 642 new Border Patrol agents were added every year. Despite the fact that 9/11 highlighted the need for more border security. in its first 5 years the Bush administration added. on average. only 411 new Border Patrol agents. Under the Clinton administration. 642 new Border Patrol agents were added every year. Under this administration. since 2001. since 9/11. only 411. It gets better. Between 1999 and 2004. we are talking about enforcement. you know what. the Republicans talk a good game about it. we have got to increase enforcement. we have got to make sure that we crack down on illegal immigration. we have got to make sure that employers are not harboring illegal immigrants and breaking the law in hiring them. Well. lets see if they really mean that. Between 1999 and 2004. work site immigration enforcement operations against companies were scaled back 99 percent by INS. Subsequently. INS was merged into the Department of Homeland Security and now it is called CIS. But in 1999. the United States. this is the year before President Bush took office. the United States of America initiated fines for hiring illegal immigrants against 417 companies. Mr. DELAHUNT. in 2004. it issued fine notices to three companies. Three. 1999. the year before President Bush took office. the United States initiated fines against 417 companies for hiring illegal immigrants. In 2004 they initiated three.