Congressman Ted Poe One Minute Speech
Washington,
Jul 11, 2006 -
Mr. Speaker, more news from the front. Our battle for the border continues,
and so does the hypocrisy from El Presidente Generalissimo Fox. So intent on
tearing down American barriers, he is more intent on building his own, and he
has taken millions of U.S.
taxpayer dollars to do it.
For years, Fox has taken American money as part of
Operation BusBound, a joint U.S.-Mexican venture, to send illegal immigrants
coming from Central America, going to Fox's
southern border, and he wants to send them back home. But he wails when we, the
United States,
use our own money for our own southern borders, securing it with our troops who
aren't even carrying weapons.
However, Guatemalans, trying to illegally enter Mexico, just
trying to take jobs Mexicans won't do, are reportedly met at the border with
machete-wielding farmers and armed Mexican military. The old sly Fox is trying
to protect his hen house while continuing to illegally enter ours.
Why is the United
States helping to protect the borders of
other Nations while lacking the moral will to protect our own? This ought not
to be, but, Mr. Speaker, that is just the way it is.
