Political Quotes

“My amendment goes in and strikes out a million dollars and inserts that million dollars back in again and directs that, in our dialogue here in the Congressional Record, for the purpose of taking out the lookout points, the spotter locations that have been formed by the drug smugglers on the U.S. side of the border between primarily Arizona and Mexico. A number of times I have been down to the border to review these lookout posts, these spotter locations, and on certain occasions I have climbed to the top of those small mountains where they overlook the transportation links that we have the intersections, and the drug smugglers have actually taken paramilitary positions on top of these mountains overlooking U.S. transportation for the purposes of being able to warn their drug and people smugglers when the Border Patrol and other law enforcement are coming along the way. I have gone to the top of these mountains with Border Patrol and with the Shadow Wolves down there on the border and flown to the top of some of these mountains to take the positions that are taken by the spotters. This is something that this Congress has spoken to before. This amendment has passed in the past, and what it does is it directs the Border Patrol and their security personnel to take those locations out, not to concede these tactical locations inside the United States that go as far up as Tucson and on north towards Phoenix.…”