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Tom Feeney: I'm very grateful. This is very important. As Congressman King just told you, we have a problem on our border most…

On the recordJune 14, 2007
I'm very grateful. This is very important. As Congressman King just told you, we have a problem on our border most Congressmen and few Americans know about. I'm a skeptical guy, even when a good patriot and friend of mine like Steve King tells me something. So I went down personally and inspected a machine gun nest 75 miles inside the Arizona border run by coyotes. It was the 13th in a list of machine gun nests where they were armed with surveillance techniques, where they were armed with radios, and they used these facilities inside our border to facilitate drug trafficking and illegal immigration. I do not believe that our government is enforcing our own security. There's nothing more important we can do than to support symbolically the King amendment to send a message we want to take these machine gun nests out. It was the Bureau of Land Management that took me up there. Why? Because they are cleaning up the mess that these coyotes leave behind them as they are smuggling poison drugs and illegals across our border. I saw it with my own eyes, or I would not have believed it. Please support the King amendment, if nothing else than to send a message we want our borders secure and our laws enforced.
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Tom Feeney
Republican · Florida

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Addressing border security and the need for enforcement against drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

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