The number has been growing. It has crept up from 900.000 on up to now nearly 1.2 million. 1.2 million people caught when we are catching a fourth to a third. by most of the testimony that comes here. But when I go down on the border and I meet with the Border Patrol officers down there. Madam Speaker. I ask them and I propose that number. are you stopping 25 percent. I found no one down there on a regular basis that told me that they stopped 25 percent of the illegal border crossings. Most of them. they gave me the number of 10 percent. and one. when I submitted the 25 percent number. actually went into hysterics and said. oh. it is not more than 3. perhaps 5. percent. 3 percent of illegal crossers and 5 percent of the illegal drugs that are coming across the border. Now. when we talk about numbers of those size. it is hard to put it into perspective.
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