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Page 3 The Harper Herald June 24,1997
GILLESPIE LIVESTOCK CO., INC.
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U.S. SENATOR
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON
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STICKING TO THE BORDER PLAN
Three years ago Congress and the Immigration and Naturalization
Service put a simple but profound question to the chief of each Border Patrol
sector along the Mexico-U.S. border: What resources do you need to get
control of the border in your area?
Each field location came up with a model of the staff and equipment
necessary to get the job done. From these models were formulated a strategy
to secure the U.S. border by the year 2005. A key element of the plan was to
hire; and deploy an additional 1,000 Border Patrol agents annually for five
years.
But, as the poet Robert Burns pointed out, the “...best laid schemes o’
mice and men...” often go awry. Sometimes this occurs because of unforseen
circumstances; more often it happens because the mice or men don’t stick to
their plan.
A textbook example: Last year Congress passed a law requiring the
Attorney General to hire an additional 1,000 Border Patrol agents during
fiscal year 1998. But the Justice Department’s proposed 1998 budget asks for
funds for only 500 agents.
How can we expect to meet the goal of securing our border if we cut in
half, the number of additional Border Patrol agents to be deployed — the
linchpin of our strategy?
Exacerbating the situation is the fact that, during the past two years, a
lioiTs share of the additional Border Patrol resources provided by Congress
went West — to the West Coast, that is. There are now 2,200 Border Patrol
agents arrayed along California’s 150-mile southern border — almost the
same number assigned to Texas’ 1,200-mile border with Mexico. Worse, the
indications are that California will receive most of the agents to be deployed
over the remainder of this year.
But you can’t beef up the border one segment at a time and achieve
control. Illegal aliens and drugs can move much faster to weak spots on the
border than the government can move resources. The entire line must be
bolstered, or it will continue to leak.
Those “missing” 500 additional Border Patrol agents could make a
significant and important difference. Let’s look at the Del Rio Border Patrol
Sector. The detention of illegal aliens has reached maximum capacity. I am
told the Del Rio Sector has the resources to apprehend and handle a maximum
of 600 illegals a day. Alarmingly, in February of this year, the sector
apprehended 18,000 illegals — roughly its 600 a day. Even an insignificant
increase in crossings would push Del Rio past its breaking point. The model
prepared for the masterplan determined Del Rio needs 808 agents, not the 600
it has now, to handle the growing numbers of illegals that cross its 205-mile
section of the border.
Making matters even more grave is the fact that the illegal alien problem
is inextricably bound up with the menace of drug smuggling. The same people
who smuggle aliens smuggle drugs. They use the same paths of entry. And
it’s no secret they’re getting bolder and better armed.
We must not renege on the commitment we have made to secure the
border. I have asked Attorney General Janet Reno to reconsider and to request
funding for the full complement of an additional 1,000 Border Patrol agents
Tb bb added next year. That’s our plan and we should be sticking to it. 6.6.97
FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS
MARKET REPORT: 6/18/97
CATTLE:
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Cows & Bulls:
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Choice Strs. & Hfrs.:
: 1.00-2.00 higher.
Packer Cows:
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Bulls:
42.00-56.00 cwt.
Bred Cows:
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Cow & Calf Prs.:
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MEDIUM TO LARGE FRAME #1
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Heifers:
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75.00-110.00 cwt.
300-400# (S) 90.00-114.00
75.00-100.00 cwt.
400-500# <0> 85.00-103.00
72.00-94.00 cwt.
500-600# I® 80.00-90.00
70.00-85.00 cwt.
600-700# @ 70.00-86.00
66.00-78.00 cwt.
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Replacement Heifers_
Lower Quality Strs.:
Lower Quality Hfrs.:
85.00-105.00 cwt.
50.00- 70.00 cwt.
45.00- 60.00 cwt.
SHEEP & GOATS: 3851 HD.
Spring Lambs: 1.00-2.00 lower.
60-80#:
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80# up:
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Stocker Ewes:
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Packer Ewes:
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Spanish Kids (under 50#):
70.00-88.00 cwt.
Spanish Kids (over 50#):
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Spanish Nannies:
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Sp. Muttons & Billies:
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Angora Muttons:
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Angora Nannies:
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Anoora Kids
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Estate Tax Destroys Family Businesses
Congress is finally consider-
ing providing American families
relief from the estate tax, which
poses a great threat to family
ranches, farms and businesses to-
day.
Estate taxes should be reduced
substantially, if not repealed.
James Martin, president of the
60 Plus Association, calls estate
taxes “a major reason 70 percent
of small, family-owned busi-
nesses don’t last more than one
generation.”
He cites the example of a
Southern tree farmer, who has
spent his life building an 850-acre
farm that he’d like to leave to his
five children.
Despite having paid substantial
property taxes, income taxes,
sales taxes, and a host of other
taxes and fees associated with the
business, that tree farmer’s heirs
will be hit with an estate tax on the
same property at a rate as high as
55 percent.
A rancher’s or farmer’s
“wealth” is in the land. The chil-
dren of many homeowners, ranch-
ers and farmers are faced with hav-
Your Voice i
in Washington L
Congressman
Lamar Smith
ing to sell off the family home-
stead just to pay the estate taxes.
Sadly, it has meant the end of many
stable and productive family busi-
nesses.
when they state that the govern-
ment provides incentives to indi-
viduals to spend their life savings
on themselves because it creates
such harsh penalties on their ef-
"...the estate tax...poses a great threat to fam-
ily ranches, farms and businesses today."
Have you seen the bumper
sticker that says, “We’re spending
our children’s inheritance as fast
as we can?” That bumper sticker
is meant to be funny, but the real-
ity of estate taxes is nothing to jest
about.
Martin and others are right
forts to save for future genera-
tions.
To add insult to injury, estate
taxes account for only 1 percent
of federal revenues. And two-
thirds of those revenues pay the
collection costs!
We should repeal the estate tax
altogether. But as my Texas col-
league, House Ways and Means
Committee Chairman Bill Archer,
said recently, “since we can’t do
that overnight, we should make it
better.”
Chairman Archer has proposed
raising the assets that are exempt
from the estate tax from the cur-
rent limit of $600,000 to $1 mil-
lion in increments spread over a
9-year period. The exemption
would then be tied to an inflation
index. That means that families
will be rewarded for building up
the value of their properties, rather
than punished by ever higher taxes
as is the case now.
As we work toward eventual
repeal of the estate tax, we must
take steps to ease the burdens that
are destroying family businesses.
Substantial reductions in the es-
tate tax would help all Americans,
especially those who want to keep
a family ranch, farm or other busi-
ness in the family.
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