Nathan Deal: “Mr. Chairman, for almost the past 3 years, this Congress and this Nation have been intent on what do we do to protect…”

“Mr. Chairman, for almost the past 3 years, this Congress and this Nation have been intent on what do we do to protect our homeland. In that same period of time, we have sent military forces to protect the boarders of Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Balkans and you name it. And the great irony that persists in the minds of the American people is, why can we not secure our own borders? I have been to JADF-6 with the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes), and what the military told me there was that some of the most valuable training that the helicopter pilots and others had was when they worked in cooperation at JADF-6, because the terrain and the training they received in trying to patrol the borders, in cooperation with the Border Patrol and other civilian police, was the most valuable training they had. Right now, when we train our military forces, we divide them up into those who are going to be the aggressors to see if they can penetrate the lines in a training exercise. Every day we have thousands of aggressors who penetrate our border. Every year we have hundreds of thousands who penetrate our border. The American people want to know why are we allowing that to happen.”