Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate my friend from Minnesota yielding. It is pretty overwhelming. It's not just Texas. There's a 2010 Rasmussen…”

“I appreciate my friend from Minnesota yielding. It is pretty overwhelming. It's not just Texas. There's a 2010 Rasmussen poll that says 68 percent of likely voters think that securing the border is more important than granting amnesty to illegals. So this is nothing new. Yet the President himself has promised that he would secure the U.S. border with Mexico. But then again, he also made a speech in May of this year in Mexico condemning the sale of guns in the U.S. that have gone to Mexico. And of course we know his administration required that to be done. So you can't just go by what's being said. The President promised to secure the border. It hasn't. The American people are sick of promises not being kept, and they want the border secure. I know that none of us want the border closed. We appreciate immigration as wonderful fresh water coming into this great lake, but it's going to sink the boat if it comes too fast. Anyway, I'm mixing my metaphors. But the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act promised it would secure the border. Not only that, it said that ``it would prevent and deter the illegal entry of aliens in the United States and the violation of the terms of their entry.'' That has not happened. In 27 years that has not happened. The American people are not stupid.…”