Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I appreciate the gentleman from South Carolina bringing this up. I, too, have spent a respectable amount of time on the border. I've gone down there and sat at night next to the border fence--no lights, no night-vision goggles--just listening to the sounds of the fence creaking, listening to the vehicles coming in through the mesquite, the doors open, the doors close, the packs get dropped on the ground, they pick them up, they whisper, they come back across the desert, and come through the fence. You can put your ear down on the steel post and it transmits that sound. As they flow through, you understand that the flow across this border isn't just where I'm sitting that night, but it's in many locations across the border. We had testimony before the Immigration Subcommittee from the Border Patrol where they said they thought they, perhaps, interdicted 25 percent of those that attempted to cross the border--25 percent. And if you look at those numbers they had interdicted that year, the number was equivalent to--if you do their formula--11,000 people a night. That meant 4 million people a year that were coming across our southern border; 11,000 a night, Mr. Speaker. So I asked that question of one of my friends from Texas. He happens to be on the Judiciary Committee and is a member of the Immigration Subcommittee--Congressman Ted Poe of Texas. He always pays attention to what went on with Santa Anna and the Battle of the Alamo.…”