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Brian Bilbray: It happened over the last few years. You have to recognize that that atrocity is happening today and continues to…

On the recordSeptember 27, 1996
It happened over the last few years. You have to recognize that that atrocity is happening today and continues to happen, while those of us in Washington fiddle, people today are driving off roads and crashing. I saw a brother and a sister, and these were not young kids, these are 15 and 16 year old brother and sister, trying to run across a freeway late at night, actually it was afternoon, following a smuggler. And what happens is the old and the young are usually in the back of these linings and there may be 30 people running across a freeway. And the smuggler is in the front. And the poor people that are the slower, younger, older people in the back, and when you have seen what has happened when they get hit by a car, you have to say when will Washington wake up to the fact that this is a cruel hoax? What we are doing is we are saying officially you are supposed to come into this country legally. But, but, if you come in here illegally, we will give your children free education, we will give you welfare benefits, we will give you health benefits. We will give you a world that you can only dream of where you are now. And no wonder these people risk their life and play this game. We had a poor group of illegals that died within less than a mile of a hospital in Chula Vista, CA; died from exposure and thirst, sitting in a canyon. Within a mile. And this is supposed to be a great humane thing to do?...
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Brian Bilbray
California

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Discussing the dangers faced by individuals crossing the border illegally and the consequences of U.S. immigration policy.

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