FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 7, 1999
BUCHANAN CALLS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION 'UNDECLARED WAR ON SOUTHERN BORDER'
DES MOINES, IA -- Today, at a Des Moines, Iowa press conference, Republican Presidential
candidate Patrick J. Buchanan called massive illegal immigration an
"undeclared war on our southern border" and vowed to "stop foreign
criminals who are crossing and re-crossing with ease to prey upon American
citizens."
Mr. Buchanan cited the 1993 CIA shooting, World Trade Center bombing, and
murderous rampage of Rafael Resendez-Ramirez-all crimes perpetrated by
illegal aliens-as examples of the exploding crime rate among illegal
immigrants.
"In 1980, our prisons housed 9,000 criminal aliens. Today, nearly 25% of
those incarcerated in federal facilities alone-over 60,000 inmates-are
criminal aliens who crossed our open borders only to terrorize American
citizens," Mr. Buchanan said. "By failing to secure our bleeding borders,
the Clinton/Gore Administration has neglected the first business of
government-protecting the rights and liberties of American citizens."
"America's most pressing foreign policy crisis is as close as our own
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona borders," Mr. Buchanan said. "It is the
duty of our Commander in Chief to protect that frontier and defend our
innocent citizens."
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