The Chief of the Border Patrol told us at Eagle Pass that he says, I am standing in front of an open fire hydrant with a bucket. I do not need more buckets. I need somebody to shut off the fire hydrant.
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McClintock shares a Border Patrol chief's analogy about the need for effective border control.
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They were staffed better, and like I said, we typically only have one deputy on patrol at a time.
To equate their lawless behavior with law abiding, hardworking, and patriotic legal immigrants is outrageous, and my colleagues who do so should be ashamed of themselves.
And we agree that about a quarter of those forests have now been destroyed by these policies.
local law enforcement in my community in California told me of one of the nearby rural towns that became a place where MS-13 brought its victims from Los Angeles to murder, and there are absolutely gruesome stories of faces being carved off, fingers severed digit by digit.





