Bill Lee: “we find ourselves in a situation in which every State in America is a border State. Now, it didn't used to be this way…”

“we find ourselves in a situation in which every State in America is a border State. Now, it didn't used to be this way, and as one who has spent 2 years living along the U.S.-Mexico border, where I served as a missionary in my early twenties, I am familiar with border towns; I am familiar with what they go through. And I can tell you from that experience, where I lived and worked among the poorest of the poor along the border, among a lot of people who were recent immigrants themselves--some documented, others not documented--I can tell you that no one fears uncontrolled waves of illegal immigration more than people living along the border, including and especially those who are recent immigrants. It is, after all, their jobs, their neighborhoods, their children's schools, their communities that are placed at risk every time there is an uncontrolled wave of illegal immigration. Now, since I lived in border communities in the early 1990s in South Texas, things have gotten a lot worse, and they have gotten exponentially worse over the last 3 years. Things got so bad in the last month that we were setting all kinds of the wrong records. Day after day, we were exceeding the maximum number of daily migrant encounters our Border Patrol had ever observed in the history of our country.…”