Sean Reyes: “I think tonight I rise in opposition because we are all concerned about illegal entries into this country. We are all…”

“I think tonight I rise in opposition because we are all concerned about illegal entries into this country. We are all concerned about drug trafficking. We are all concerned about the attacks on our various neighborhoods. This is a bad idea from my personal experience because I spent 26 rac{1}{2}\ years patrolling the border. I should remind my colleagues that we have a plan that will increase the number of Border Patrol agents by 1,000 agents per year until 2001, at which time we will reevaluate the effectiveness of that increase. I think tonight it is important that my colleagues realize that this proposal does not restrict the utilization of the military to our southern border. If you represent the State of New York, you should be concerned. If you are a Representative from the West Coast or from the coast of Florida, you should be concerned about what this kind of proposal might do to our neighborhoods.”