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On the recordNovember 15, 2010
Well, I think that the current plan really is a two-part plan. The plan isn't just to erect a few signs in Arizona, saying, We can't take care of you. Travel north of Interstate 8 and, as you mentioned, really secede the land south of Interstate 8 to the drug cartels. That may be part of the plan. That's plan A of a two-part plan. Plan B, though, is: We're also, as the government, going to sue States that try to defend themselves. So put up some signs and sue States that try to protect their citizens, like the State of Arizona, where both of these incidences are occurring. I think it is tragic that the United States Government has gone to court and has spent who knows how much taxpayer money in suing a State that wants to protect the people of that State and wants to enact State laws that do what the Federal Government is supposed to do but which obviously it won't or cannot do.
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Ted Poe
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