Speech #1090170465

This Is Iraq. a country that could afford to pay for many of its own needs. And in the course of that. we have failed. Our border enforcement and immigration enforcement have fallen drastically under this administration. Between 1999 and 2004. worksite immigration enforcement operations against companies were scaled back 99 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. which subsequently was merged into the Department of Homeland Security. In 1999 the United States initiated fines against 417 companies. In 2004 it issued fines against only three. Years of neglect have brought us where we are today. We know that Democrats offered amendments where there would be 6.600 more Border Patrol agents. 14.000 more detention beds. and 2.700 more immigration agents along our borders. And yet we failed. There is a concept called OTMs.