The same goes with the interdiction of roughly 1.6 million. They were
more aggressive then. And I will say that Bill Clinton was successful
in interdicting more border crossing attempts than any other President. I don't know that that was his goal or his objective, but I believe
that was the statistical results. To that extent, Madam Speaker, I don't disagree with the gentleman
from Texas. And I agree that the border crossings have slowed down. Ten
years ago they were greater than they are today, but it is not logical,
in fact, it is not rational to assert that the border is as secure as
it has ever been. Neither is it logical or rational to say that it is
no security threat. In the times that I have been on the border, I have encountered the
incidents of seven different persons of interest from nations of
interest. That is our vernacular that we use when we see people that
are coming from--I will call them--terrorist-spawning states. If an
Iranian or an Iraqi or a Yemeni shows up at the southern border and
they are interdicted by our Border Patrol, they are then placed into
the hands of the FBI. At the moment that that happens, it becomes a
classified incident. I doubt if the gentleman from El Paso encounters this.
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