Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I can understand now why the amendment was offered, because there are a number of mistakes with respect to the facts. The gentleman mentioned that Chief Reyes, Silvester Reyes, who is by far the most famous Border Patrol chief in this country because he actually did something in terms of stemming the tide and holding the line in El Paso, was represented by a San Diego Union editorial writer as being opposed to the fence. After he testified before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, he stated that, if you had sufficient agencies and you had a triple fence, you could indeed stop illegal immigration. When I sent the editorial that the gentleman just read and another editorial to Silvester Reyes, he responded with a corrective letter to the newspaper admonishing them not to misrepresent his position. His position just a couple of days ago was this: As a former chief of the El Paso Border Patrol sector, I testified last year before Congress on our efforts to control illegal immigration in the El Paso area.”