Louie Gohmert: “The people who are coming into the country illegally, obviously they are not worrying about what the laws in the…”

“The people who are coming into the country illegally, obviously they are not worrying about what the laws in the wilderness area are. They can bring mechanical things and let them work there, but the Border Patrol cannot pursue them. Those areas look like roadways, and it is from the illegals coming through the wilderness areas. I want to mention one other thing. I know our President has said he has been doing everything from day one. He has been in control. He has been in charge, and we are doing absolutely everything we can. But then we find out many weeks after this explosion that actually the Netherlands and other countries have offered their ships, their expertise to come help us. The Netherlands, probably the best nation in the world for building dikes and building sand barriers and things, they volunteered to come over here. The problem is that would violate a union-pushed law back in the 1920s. I believe it was in the 1920s when it came. It says, if it is not an American ship, it can't operate and do the things that the Dutch were willing to do for us. I am sure the President is just a victim of whoever put that information in his teleprompter, but the fact is that everything has not been done. We had a hearing where we had Coast Guard people, and the people from Louisiana have made clear, they have been trying to do things since it started and they keep being hampered by this administration giving BP the responsibility to make all decisions.”