Mark Souder: “first I, too, want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra), the…”

“first I, too, want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra), the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) and others who have been down on the border. We held a hearing there in the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources just weeks ago, particularly going down to Organ Pipe, one of our more beautiful national monuments where the cactus, unlike the saguaro, come up, and hence the name, the Organ Pipe. They have saguaro cactus there as well. But unfortunately right now because of all the illegal immigrants and all the drug smuggling moving through that park, one of the most beautiful hiking trails in the country is sealed off because it is too dangerous for people to hike there. When you walk through the park, you see milk containers all over the place. If they are clear, it means they were water of people walking into the deserts by the hundreds. You can see them across the line because we basically have little protection on that border. If they are black, it is clear they had narcotics and were moving narcotics through. The area where this brave ranger was killed is just east of the main crossing point. It was in a wash. As he and seven other agents from Customs and Border Patrol and others were trying to capture this illegal immigrant and drug smuggler, the immigrant, the smuggler, hid in some bushes.”