Speech #1100019430

But when it shakes down to it. Madam Speaker. and we have talked about all of the amenities and the niceties and the general discussion topics that dont have a lot of substance but carry on the day. in the end. In America we get down to one of two subjects. and that is either the global war on terror on which Iraq is a principle battleground. or it is immigration. And sometimes it is both. And having just come back from another trip to the border last week about now a week ago. and having been flush full of the things that I learned down there. I am compelled to come here to the floor. Madam Speaker. and raise the issue and begin to examine this subject and topic a little bit more. We have now. for about 3 years. had an intense debate and discussion on immigration. and there are those of us here in this Chamber. in fact. this House of Representatives last fall voted to build a double fence/wall on the southern border. and laid out the distances. the locations and the distances from those locations. And. when calculated and totaled up. it becomes clear that Congress has mandated. the House and the Senate has mandated that there be 854 miles of at least doublewalled fencing. a double fencing or a double fencing and wall constructed upon our southern border in priority areas. Madam Speaker.