I just have a couple concluding comments and then I will turn it back over. What we need to do is learn the lesson that we learned in 2005 and 2006. In talking with Secretary Johnson. he understands this problem very well. I know the Senator from Arizona remembers this. In 2005. we saw a surge of what were at the time called OTMs. immigrants from countries other than Mexico. Strangely enough. we saw a surge of 30.000 Brazilians who were detained at our southwestern border. What Secretary Chertoff came to learn is that a loophole they were exporting was the socalled catch and release at the time.
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