At least six states have been taken over to one extent or another by the Gulf cartel, Sinaloa, almost entirely.

Since President Calderon has taken office, more than 4,200 people have been killed in the drug battles that are going on down there. That's, of course, more than we have lost in Iraq.

The State Department has issued a traveler's warning for Americans traveling to some of the border communities. There are kidnappings, almost on a daily basis, of people from the United States – people being kidnapped on our side of the line, taken to Mexico and held for ransom, sometimes $20,000, $10,000. You don't hear about it, but we are at war on our Southern border. It is a dangerous place to be.

There is a group called the Zadas. These are thugs that were originally hired by the Gulf cartel to be their enforcers. They've begun actually moving into the position of becoming their own cartel. They advertise on bridges. There are big signs placed on bridges down there saying, "Join this" – "Join us. We pay better than anything else." Who are these people, by the way? These were highly trained forces in the Mexican army, trained, many of them, by the way, at Fort Benning, Georgia by your tax dollars and mine. They went back and, of course, turned and are now part of the enforcement arm of the cartels, the Zedas, incredibly bloody organization, very, very dangerous and control a significant portion of the country itself.

There's a city about 90 miles south of El Paso that is presently under siege. It's about 600,000 people; 170 police officers simply fled when the cartels arrived to start doing battle. The military is there now trying to take the city back. This is happening just 90 miles south of our border. There's a camp near Matamoras, Mexico at which these people, the Zedas, are training people for a variety of things. We don't know. I mean it's supposedly to just bring drugs in and how best to smuggle drugs into the United States.

By the way, 300 tons of cocaine last year. We have no idea the number of tons actually of marijuana and other drugs. Ninety percent of all methamphetamine comes into the United States from Mexico, 90%.

Okay, so I was really just trying to focus on this and explain what was going to happen and why.

Of course, one of the first things any rational government would do under a circumstance like this is at least secure the border! We're talking about the Merida Initiative. That’s the way we're going to handle this. That's 1 billion 500 million dollars that we are going to appropriate – one part of it has already been – to send to the Calderon government to help fight the cartels.

Now, this is going to be in the form of training and supplies. And I have to tell you, we've gone this route before. We've sent money before. We've done training before. And what happened, we trained the Zedas because the government is so corrupt because there is no way to actually make sure that the use of the money or the equipment will be in the right hands.

So, first, you've got to secure your border, but we haven't.

We have a bigger enemy, that enemy being Radical Islam.

I don't know how many years to explain that, in fact, that's exactly why I am worried about this issue. We are at war with Radical Islam, absolutely true. I believe it with all my heart. I believe it's not just the United States at war with Radical Islam; it is Western Civilization at war with Radical Islam. I believe that is what is at stake.

You need two things to win any kind of battle, two things.

One, you have to know who you are fighting, what it is that motivates them, who are these people, what drives them.

And the other thing you must know is who you are. And I'm telling you, we are losing on at least that front. I don't know anymore if we know who we are, what the word American really means because massive immigration into this country, when it combines with the cult of multiculturalism that permeates our society, creates a cultural, political, and linguistic Tower of Babble, and we lose sight of who we are, and it becomes difficult for us to marshal the forces necessary to defend Western Civilization.

Look at the difficulty that our friends and allies in Europe are having today. So immigration alone is no big deal. Immigration with radical multiculturalism, a very, very big deal and very scary thing. It goes to the heart of whether we're going to be able to control this.

Last time I was here I was doing a little talk out in the hall, people had gathered, and somebody was there with a microphone from a radio station, and I mentioned that we were 60 miles away from a city that was really a third-world country. Whoa, did I get in a lot of trouble! I mean Jeb Bush sent me a nasty letter. There was a was a poll taken shortly thereafter. The Miami Herald published it, and most people agreed with me. Most people in Miami agreed with me.

And the point I wanted to make is that the danger we face with this phenomena I have described of massive immigration and this cult of multiculturalism creates this – a statement encapsulates the whole thing.

A guy in Miami considered himself to be, and they identified him in the Time magazine article as the head of the Cuban [Immigrais] in that area. That's the way they identified him. He's a professor at the University of Miami. And he said something that has got to be taken seriously. He said the thing he loved about Miami is that it was a city in which there was no pressure to become an American. That's what I am talking about. That's what I am worried about because when America is at war – when the military is at war but the rest of America is at the mall, you know, it's a bad thing. When the military is at war and the rest of America is at the Mercado, it becomes an even more dangerous thing.

We are losing sight of who we are. We are losing sight of what connects us as Americans. What does this term citizenship really mean? Does it have significance? Are we losing it?

When I was in Brownsville, Texas a couple of weeks ago we had a hearing down there on the border fence. People in Brownsville were absolutely against it. The mayor's against it. The town's against it. Everybody was up in arms. And they kept saying, "We don't want this fence." I said, "Why?" They said, "Because it will divide our community." I said, "Your community? No, no. You see, it divides two countries, the United States and Mexico, not your community. Your community is in this country."

But that didn't satisfy them, and they were very upset. And so I finally said, "Look, I'll cut a deal with you. You're so worried about this fence dividing your community. Why don’t we do this? Why don't we just build the darn fence around the northern part of your city?" It's okay with me, and you know what? A lot of them applauded, too, because, frankly, they're not connected to America. They're not. Emotionally, intellectually, politically, they are still connected to another country, and linguistically, certainly, it's also true.

This is not something that will help us in this clash of civilization as we face. Thank you very much.