House Proceeding 03-25-10 on Mar 25th, 2010 :: 2:05:00 to 2:10:30
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Ted Poe: richardson of california, ms. kaptur of ohio. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the chair will recognize for special order speeches without prejudice with the resumption of legislative business.

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Speech By: Ted Poe

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Ted Poe: under the speaker's anounced policy of january 6 of 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the folowing members are recognized for five minutes each. mr. poe of texas. the gentleman is recognized for five minutes.

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Ted Poe: mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. bringing you news from the third front. the first front is in iraq, the second front is in afghanistan and the third front which we don't talk many comb is the front front of the border, the border wars between texas and mexico. we have heard a lot about the

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Ted Poe: fact that there is violence on the board, especially the southern border, on the border where mexico meets the united states, on the mexican side, the drug cartels are fighting for turf, they are violent and vicious and murder is a way of life against the god mexican nationals that live just south

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Ted Poe: of the u.s.-mexican border. the drug cartels have engaged in violent acts in a town in mexico in south texas area on the othe side of the rio grande r where falcon lake is the border between mexico and texas. and people in that town have taken cover.

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Ted Poe: in fact, the police department of that town have told people of that town of 6,000, not come out of your homes because the drug cartels will take your life. they are fighting to take that turf, that entry into the united states to bring that cancer and to sell it. but there are those who say that

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Ted Poe: the border war on the southern side of the u.s. border doesn't affect us. of course, those people are wrong. let's take one example. . how many people do you have in

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Ted Poe: your county jail who are foreign nationals who have been arreed for a crime in the united states? most of those sheriffs were quick to tell us. some of them did not tell me. but overall of the 14 counties that border mexico from texas, 37% of the people in those county jails are foreign

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Ted Poe: nationals charged with crimes in the united states. yes, the violence on the border, the failure of the united states government to secure our southern border, affects people who live in those border communities. these are not wealthy counties. these are poor counties where people have day jobs on both sides of the border.

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Ted Poe: these counties are so poor that -- i'll give you an example. over here in this county, where 63% of the people are foreign nationals in the jail, the county commissioners don't even have enough money to give sheriff west and his deputy sheriffs a motor pool. they have no vehicles. so what do they do to obtain

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Ted Poe: vehicles in the sheriff's department? they have to confiscate drug vehicles that have been captured and turned over to the united states and then turned ov the to the county. so the sheriff of this county only drives vehicles that he's confiscated from the drug cartels. you see the sheriffs along the border say that they are outfinanced by the dru cartels,

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Ted Poe: they're outmanned and they are outgunned by these drug the crime that occurs in the united states by foreign nationals crossing our poorest border affects counties along the border, but it also affects counties throughout the united states. i think we would be shocked to find out how many foreign

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Ted Poe: nationals are in county jails throughout the country, charged with crimes that they have committed here, both legal and illegals who have come across our border. once again, 37% of the people in the county jails on the texas-mexico border, on the texas side are foreign nationals. and it goes all the way from 1%, and i don't think that's

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Ted Poe: correct, over in webb county, all the way up to 100% in teller county. teller county, the sheriff said, everybody in my county jail is a foreign national charged with a crime in my county. it is the duty of the federal government to secure america's borders.

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Ted Poe: this is the third front. but yet we are blissfully ignorant up here in washington, d.c., about what is taking place on this entire border. there are good people who live on both sides of this international border and there are good people who live in fear on both sides because of the violence that is created by the drug cartels.

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Ted Poe: we need to do whatever is necessary to prevent crime from occurring and coming across our border and that includes sendin