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Tom Tancredo: I want to wrap up my remarks by once again referring to and recalling the fact that the problems that this Nation faces…

On the recordJuly 9, 2003
I want to wrap up my remarks by once again referring to and recalling the fact that the problems that this Nation faces with the inability or the lack of determination on its part to actually defend its own borders creates more than problems in the job market. It creates more than problems for our schools and our hospitals in terms of the infrastructure that has to be created in order to support the illegal aliens who do come into the country. It creates other problems that are very dramatic and very real. And we are going to focus on those problems, and we are going to hold an event here in this year in September. Mr. Speaker, it will be the week of September 11, and we are inviting people to come to Washington, D.C., people who have been victims of our porous borders, and these can be people as the folks that I have identified here, the friends and relatives of the people that have been individually harmed by the fact that our borders are porous and that we do not defend them.
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Tom Tancredo
Colorado

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Discussing the impact of illegal immigration and announcing an event for victims of porous borders.

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