Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2007

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Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Chairman, I certainly appreciate my colleague from Iowa (Mr. King) for offering this amendment, and I certainly appreciate his leadership and dedication to this issue.

I do want to commend Chairman Rogers on his dedicated leadership to putting together a strong homeland security bill which includes $30 million to complete the San Diego border infrastructure system, including a fence there, as well as $8 million with the cost associated with the Arizona Border Control Initiative. Those are good things.

What our amendment does is supplement that and adds $100 million by taking out money for bureaucrats sitting here in Washington that are not making this country safer by sitting in an office. We want to put fences out in the places that will be needed and necessary.

This $100 million will stop this mass flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border. The 12 million illegals, 10 to 20 million, in this country, in fact, can attest to the ease by which you can cross over the border.

I commend my colleague, Mr. King, for his dedicated leadership to this very important issue in stifling the flow of illegal immigrants across our southern border, and I urge my colleagues to support this initiative.

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