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Robert Dornan: in my district is a city named after the grandmother of Jesus Christ, Santa Ana, St. Ann. In this city, which once won…

On the recordSeptember 26, 1996
in my district is a city named after the grandmother of Jesus Christ, Santa Ana, St. Ann. In this city, which once won the all-American city award, and it is an all-American city, we have people living in garages, illegal aliens, and as my colleague, the gentleman from California, Dana Rohrabacher said, good people fleeing a socialist government. It has had one corrupt government following another for all of my life in poor, politically ridden Mexico. But they live 14, 15, in one case the police officers of Santa Ana told me 18 people to a garage, the garage; who knows how many in the house. They have a crack house three blocks from the civic center, which is the civic center for Dana Rohrabacher's district, Chris Cox's district. That is where they are going to complete next year the Ronald Reagan Courthouse, a civic center for six Congressmen here, Ed Royce, Ron Packard, part of Jay Kim's, Dana's, mine, and Chris Cox's district. Three blocks on Third Street from that district is a crack house that when I was doing a ridealong in a police car, I asked this black belt police officer to stop. I said, if we put that in a movie, if an art director finished that as a movie set and said, there is your crack house, a good director would reject it as ridiculous looking, too colorful; graffiti from the grass level to the eaves of the roof. It would be absurd.…
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Robert Dornan
Republican · California

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Discussing issues of poverty and crime in Santa Ana, California.

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