Dan Patrick: ‘We Cannot Educate, Medicate and Incarcerate the Whole World Who Wants to Come Here’

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PATRICK: "Sean, let me give you a macro number down to micro. You hear this number of 11 million illegals in this country. It's close to 30 million. It's closing in on 10 percent of the population. By my own calculation, If you look at the numbers back in 2004, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said we had 10.5 million then. We’ve seen about 400,000 apprehended every year up until this year, we may apprehend a million this year. And for every person we apprehend, Sean, three, four or five more get in. So if you take that math, we have somewhere between 28 and 34 million people here illegally. In Texas, it's busting our bank. We’re spending $2.4 billion in the last three years since I've been lieutenant governor, the last three sessions, just on border security. One out of every five students in our public schools, Sean, about 1 million out of our 5.5 million are not proficient or don’t speak English. We cannot educate, medicate and incarcerate the whole world who wants to come here. You are right on the crime statistics. And Sean, right now we’re looking at 100,000 people coming over the border this month. About 60 percent of those between Brownsville and Laredo in the country. And Sean, as Lawrence said, what is happening is even though we've paid for in the state of Texas 5,000 cameras along the border, we see them but we don’t have enough manpower to get there in time and neither does the federal government. So they get through. If we get 100,000 this month, I’m going to estimate 300 or 400,000 have come through that we did not apprehend. And these could be the worst of the worst, because the drug cartels have the families going here, and they run the drugs and the criminals up the middle."