Speech #1100019128

So I will say dozens infiltrated around me the night that I sat down there. Mr. Speaker. and perhaps 20 there in broad daylight as we flew by with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Chief of the Border Patrol. and two Blackhawk helicopters that make a lot of noise. and you can hear them coming quite a long ways off. still didnt deter the daylight Illegal crossings taking place. And as I look at the numbers of those who are coming across that southern border. and I would direct anyones attention to the testimony before the Immigration Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee in the 109th Congress. Mr. Speaker. and also in the 108th Congress. where we had a number of witnesses that testified for the Border Patrol or the Border Patrol Union when asked what level of Interdiction do you have of those that are crossing the border illegally. what percentage are you able to arrest? And their answer has consistently been 25 to 30 percent is all that would be interdicted. So. Mr. Speaker. their testimony also shows that last year. the Border Patrol on the southern border. the 2000 miles of our Mexican border. intercepted. 1.188.000 illegal immigrants who were seeking to cross our southern border. Intercepted. 1.188.000. and now we are to that point where we fingerprint them all. at least that is what the testimony says. and that their fingerprints go into the record so we can track them if theirs are duplicate or triplicate or have been stopped a number of times at the border. And at some point we need to be running out of patience and bringing charges against them. lock them up. make them serve their time and then deport them.