Speaker. I thank the chairman for yielding. My colleagues. since 9/11 border enforcement became not an immigration issue primarily but a national security issue primarily. We have to know who is coming across our borders and what they are bringing with them. That requires a fence. The fence in San Diego works. When we built that fence. we had border gangs robbing. raping. murdering. killing mostly the illegal aliens who came through. preying on those people. We had 300 drug trucks a month ramming across the open border. coming through the sagebrush. We had a border that was out of control.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization that people crossing the border are bringing drugs and committing crimes.