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Mark Souder: “I saw with my own eyes in the middle of the night, about 1,200. But as we fenced that area, we broke up the big groups…”

On the recordSeptember 26, 2006
I saw with my own eyes in the middle of the night, about 1,200. But as we fenced that area, we broke up the big groups there in San Diego. And so in San Diego you no longer have the huge groups of 1,000. We thought we were down to groups of basically, I have seen 50 or 100 with my own eyes, but... Congressman Pearce from New Mexico said that there are a number of cases, particularly in New Mexico right now, because as we worked on the Arizona border, pushed them into New Mexico where he said this morning that he had seen 300 to 400 at a time in New Mexico. I myself have seen 50 to 100, and I used to see 1,200 before we built a fence in San Diego.
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Mark Souder
Indiana

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Discussing border security and immigration issues during a House floor debate.

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