Speech #1140082313

But if we dont enforce them. if we dont protect them. we are no longer a sovereign Nation. We allow people to stream across the border. We have had Border Patrol testimony here in this Congress within the last decade where they testified that they believed that they interdicted perhaps 25 percent of those that attempted to cross the border. When you looked at the numbers of those interdictions and did the math on that. it turned out to be 4 million illegal border crossing attempts in a single year. That is roughly at the peak of this. That has diminished by a few million. But think of that: 365 divided into 4 million works out to about 11.000 a night. About 11.000 illegal aliens come across our southern border at night. Maybe that number could be as far down as perhaps 6.000 or so. but that is still the size of Santa Annas army. The size of Santa Annas army comes across every night.