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Louie Gohmert: I want to identify with the comments of my friend from Indiana. Well said. Great thoughts. We have wonderful friends in…

On the recordMay 13, 2011
I want to identify with the comments of my friend from Indiana. Well said. Great thoughts. We have wonderful friends in this world, as a Nation. But we need to recognize who are our friends and who are our enemies and who are the places, the countries, the peoples that intend us harm, who are the people that are willing to assist us in encouraging and allowing for freedom to spread around the world. We should be well aware that there are people across our border in Mexico who are not Mexicans, people who would like to see this Nation fail as such an important keeper of the peace. We know that Hezbollah has been setting up camp across the U.S. border in Mexico; that they have been working with drug cartels in Mexico, and it appears we see some of the signs of that in the ways that people are murdered, the way the crime business has developed. We know that people coming across our border into this country, a significant percentage at least, are other than Mexican. OTM, they're classified. So many of them from the Middle East, many who are taught to try to appear as Hispanic and come across and try to avoid indicating anything that would give away the fact that they are coming here, not for jobs, but to set up to try to do us harm.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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May 13, 2011

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