Jon Kyl: “I appreciate that. We had testimony before the Terrorism Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, which I chair and on…”

“I appreciate that. We had testimony before the Terrorism Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, which I chair and on which Senator Feinstein is the ranking member, about what the results of that fencing in San Diego have meant--on both sides of the border. The testimony was that it has reduced crime on both sides of the border. The people in Mexico are very pleased because the gangs and the coyotes that used to gather together before they would try to bring their load of illegal immigrants across the boarder--preying on them, stealing from them, robbing them, beating them, and committing other crimes against them--that whole milieu has ended because the fencing has made it impossible to cross, so the coyotes have gone to other places to try to take their loads across the border. They are no longer congregating and hanging out in that area in Tijuana and south of the San Diego area, and as a result, on both sides of the border, crime has gone down dramatically. The environment has improved dramatically because you don't have these thousands and thousands of people crossing, cutting all these trails, leaving their garbage behind. In fact, I am told nobody has actually gotten across the fencing in that entire sector. I don't have the statistics off the top of my head here, but the testimony before our subcommittee was dramatic in terms of the number of apprehensions before the fencing and the number of apprehensions afterward.…”