Golden Gate University School of Law GGU Law Digital Commons California Assembly California Documents 7-26-1996 America's Victims At Its Southern Border Assembly Republican Caucus Office ofolic P y Research Jamie Langius Assembly Republican Caucus Office ofo P licy Research Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_assembly Part of the Immigration Law Commons, and the Legislation Commons Recommended Citation Assembly Republican Caucus Office of Policy Research and Langius, Jamie, "America's Victims At Its Southern Border" (1996). California Assembly. Paper 339. http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_assembly/339 This Cal State Document is brought to you for free and open access by the California Documents at GGU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in California Assembly by an authorized administrator of GGU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. AmericaJ~,.Victhns Atlts'~Southern· ·eorder Executive Summary This report documents that American citizens and companies are victims of an international border that is out of control. The Speaker of the California State Assembly, Curt Pringle has established a Border Crime Subcommittee to the Public Safety Committee and appointed Assemblyman Jan Goldsmith as its Chair. • The Los Angeles Times reported in 1993, that immigration into the U.S. from Mexico is serving as a "safety valve" by "providing an alternative to social activism and revolt for the disenfranchised." • The U.S. Border Patrol has a thankless, and currently impossible, task of controi in a corridor that is clearly out-of-control. The agents are underfunded, understaffed and sometimes outgunned while doing everything they can to protect American citizens and property.