It is in the thousands--the Americans who died at the hands of criminal
aliens who are in the United States illegally committing crimes
against. And I call them Americans. Sometimes they are green card
holders, lawful permanent residents. Sometimes they are here on a visa. They are legally in the United
States. Sometimes they are illegal aliens that also crept into America
that die at the hands of those who should not be here. Now, from where I stand, every life that has been sacrificed, that
has been taken at the hand of someone who is unlawfully present in the
United States of America, every life could have been saved. Every crime
is a preventable crime, and I have lived that and believed that for a
long time, Mr. Speaker. As I came to this Congress some 14 years ago, I listened to the
witnesses before the Immigration Subcommittee, and the witnesses would
continually testify about how many lives were lost in the Arizona
desert as people were trying to sneak into America. Having snuck across
the border and they are trying to creep through the desert, often the
heat will affect them, and they will be without water and they will die
of exposure or exhaustion. The numbers went from roughly 200 a year in
the Arizona desert, I recall them going up to as high as 450.
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