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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIME VICTIMS
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, I rise, once again, to share
stories of Americans who once were vibrant and alive but now are dead
because Washington's open borders policies fail to protect our own
people.
I yearn for the day when there are no more speeches like this to give
because we have secured our borders and there are no more illegal alien
killings to describe.
On average, roughly 2,000 illegal aliens are apprehended each year by
Federal agents for homicides committed on American soil. Another,
roughly, 120,000 illegal aliens are arrested each year for other
criminal activity, including 50,000 assaults and 15,000 sexual
assaults.
For emphasis, behind each statistic is a crime victim who would have
been spared if America simply secured our porous southern border.
In Marshall County, Alabama, an illegal alien was recently arrested
for first-degree rape of a 12-year-old girl. According to Marshall
County Sheriff Phil Sims, the illegal alien had at least 10 different
aliases, four different birth dates, and two prior deportations. In
2008, the illegal alien was charged with DUI in Louisiana and deported.
In 2009,
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the illegal alien was deported yet again for illegal reentry. This
first-degree rape of a 12-year-old girl would have been prevented by
proper border security.
In Mobile, Alabama, Sonya Jones was recently killed by an illegal
alien charged with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a head-
on collision. Sonya Jones was a teacher at Living Word Christian Center
Kingdom Academy. One of Sonya's colleagues said that she had a smile
that would light up the hallways.
The illegal alien who killed Sonya Jones is a prime example of how
dangerous asylum laws and catch-and-release policies are to Americans.
Sonya Jones' illegal alien killer entered America illegally and was
captured by law enforcement but then released when he lied to claim
asylum. As is so overwhelmingly often the case, Sonya Jones' illegal
alien killer failed to show up in court on the asylum claim and,
instead, disappeared, leaving at least one dead American in his wake.
Last week, in Washington State, Kittitas County Sheriff's Deputy Ryan
Thompson was shot and killed by yet another illegal alien who legally
entered America in Texas in 2014 on a temporary agricultural worker
visa but illegally overstayed his visa after it expired. Deputy Ryan
Thompson was married with three children and is the first law
enforcement officer to be murdered in Kittitas County since 1927.
In 2005, in Milton, Pennsylvania, beautiful 20-year-old Carly Snyder
loved animals and dreamed of being a veterinarian. Her dream ended when
an illegal alien forcibly entered Carly's apartment, punched her in the
face, knocked her to the floor, and stabbed her 37 times. Carly went
into shock and died at the scene.
Mr. Speaker, Washington should have more sympathy and concern for the
lives of Americans than illegal aliens. Unfortunately, Washington does
not and, instead, puts illegal aliens on pedestals, above the interests
of Americans.
Mr. Speaker, Americans have every right to expect Congress to defend
American rights, and the most basic right is the right to life, the
right to be protected from illegal alien killings that could so easily
be avoided.
Tragically, Congress turns a blind eye to the lives and innocence of
Americans stolen by illegal aliens. That is wrong.
President Trump is right to declare a national emergency to help save
the lives of at least 30,000 Americans who are alive today but will be
dead a year from now if we do not protect and secure America's southern
border. As such, I will not hesitate to proudly vote to sustain
President Trump's veto of socialist legislation that supports open-
borders policies that aid and abet illegal aliens who kill Americans
and aid and abet evil drug cartels that market their poisonous, deadly
drugs that take American lives.
Mr. Speaker, Americans who die at the hands of illegal aliens had
dreams, too.
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