Political Quotes

“as Senator McCain just noted, we have a crisis on the southern border with Mexico. We have drug and human smuggling daily. There are over 500,000 illegal immigrants a year crossing into the United States; 320 people died last year crossing into the desert area of Arizona. There is a significant degradation of the environment that has occurred because of the large number of people and vehicles coming across. The ranchers' operations are disrupted, their cattle are sent scurrying, their fences are cut, their water is taken. We have hundreds of millions of dollars of medical costs that are unreimbursed because of the emergency care that is being provided to illegal immigrants. We have the vigilantes that Senator McCain talked about springing up now, an understandable reaction to a problem but not an appropriate one. We have attacks on the Border Patrol every day, and even park rangers are being killed. This is a crisis and it has to be dealt with.”