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On the recordJanuary 22, 2019
Mr. Speaker, exactly. That is where it stopped. You know, and in talking with these agents, who are drastically understaffed, they can't do--they can't chase down everybody that comes. I will tell you, every agent we talked with had no hesitation to run after one person or run after a group of 10 or more. And my question to him was: How do you handle that type? That is how dedicated they are. That is how diligent they are. They are sacrificing their safety. The other thing I would point out that you and I saw to show you how deceptive these drug runners are, they use carpet; they have stitched together a carpet-type that wraps their feet so that you can't tell where they go. You can't track them. And that is all along. You can see where they are going, but you can't see the actual footprint that they are leaving. The other thing that stuck out to me that I thought was just amazing were to talk to the ranchers. That one rancher had had four home invasions. Now, think about it. How would you like to wake up, as he did, in the middle of the night, with a person dressed in black staring at his wife? How would you like, what the sheriff told us--I am not going to name his name--when his home--a bounty was put on his head. He woke up, because he had surveillance, to see four people coming in to kill him. {time} 2030 How would you like to see the rape trees that you and I saw? Children's underwear, clothing, it really is a humanitarian crisis.…
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Ralph Norman
Republican · South Carolina

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