Speech #1100158487

Mexican nationalized oil company. produces about $28 billion worth of oil pumped out of Mexico and along the Gulf. $28 billion. This is about 2V2 times the value of all the illegal drugs coming into the United States. The 250.000 criminal illegal aliens that are incarcerated in the United States amounts to 27 percent of the criminal population. the inmate population in our Federal penitentiaries. and there is a report that came out in April of 2005 that shows that we are funding about one out of every four prisoners that apply. And you do the math on that. and it comes out to about 25 percent of our State and local prisons are criminal inmates there as well. So when I look at what happens in places like Israel. where they have built a fence that has been almost 100 percent effective. you cant make the argument.