Brian Bilbray: “I was in the House and listened to the discussion, and I guess the discussion of talking about a drop of water is maybe…”

“I was in the House and listened to the discussion, and I guess the discussion of talking about a drop of water is maybe very appropriate. Some Members here may not know this, but I am probably the only Member of Congress that has rescued illegal immigrants as they were drowning. I am probably also the only Member of Congress that, sadly, has had to recover their bodies when they were not rescued. Now, I would just ask, as we talk about this in political terms, that we remember there is a human factor here. And the human factor is not just in the neighborhoods way up north. The human factor is also in our neighborhoods along the frontier. Mr. Speaker, I would like to remind my colleagues that over 260 people die every year trying to come into this country illegally and that is more or equal to those who were killed in the Oklahoma explosion. I wish this institution would be as outraged at the carnage along our frontiers as they are with the terrorism within our borders.”