Louie Gohmert: “In 1 month. That is not everybody that was coming in. My friend, being a general in the United States Army, served our…”

“In 1 month. That is not everybody that was coming in. My friend, being a general in the United States Army, served our country so meritoriously. We had a situation under President Woodrow Wilson where a small part of Pancho Villa's gang came across the border into the United States, killed some families, and then went back into Mexico. Devout Democrat that Woodrow Wilson was, he apparently saw that small incursion as an invasion. He sent--and I have asked the Congressional Research Service for their best numbers, and the estimate, taken from articles and information they had gotten, was probably around 75,000 of a new group called the National Guard--new back in the early 1900s. He sent them down to stand guard on the border--75,000--and sent General John Pershing down into Mexico pursuing Pancho Villa's troops. They didn't ever get him; they got a lot of his lieutenants. But, apparently, when 75,000 people were put on the border, there was no more invasion. If you look at the U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4--this is our Constitution--says: ``The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion.'' Now, 51,000 in a month is many, many times more than the folks that Pancho Villa had come in and kill Americans. Would the gentleman consider that an invasion, what we have going on on our southern border? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry).”