Harry Reid: “I am going to briefly talk about this amendment tonight and then we will have more time in the morning if necessary. I…”

“I am going to briefly talk about this amendment tonight and then we will have more time in the morning if necessary. I had the opportunity 3 weeks ago tomorrow to go to the border, the Mexico-California border. We flew. We could see the Arizona border. I spent the day there and certainly got an understanding of some of the problems that these valiant Border Patrol agents face. San Ysidro, CA, is one of the entry points. It is hard to visualize this, but think in your mind's eye of 24 lanes of traffic coming into America from Mexico. That is what is at San Ysidro, 24 lanes of traffic, one way; 24 lanes of traffic, 7 days a week, year round. While I was there, the agent showed me some of the things they had been able to catch: a little utility truck, and hidden in it was narcotics in a secret compartment; a car, a compact car, and they had built a canvas drop in it under the back seat. Eight people were stuffed into that in the compact car, underneath so you couldn't see them, but the dogs and agents were able to pick them up. These were only two examples. All day long this goes on. I talked to the agents about the walls that have been put up. These people, called coyotes--call them whatever you want--these people, who are criminals, who take money from Mexicans to bring them into the United States, sit up on one fence, which is a metal fence. On the other side there is a chain-link fence.…”