It is our job to prevent disaster from happening. not react after the fact. We had the opportunity to do that today. We could have voted on my amendment increasing the number of Customs and Border Patrol officers at our ports. but the amendment was not allowed on the floor. All the talk on border and port security means little if we do not have the boots on the ground to check what is coming into our Nation before it arrives here or before it leaves a foreign port. And we could have ensured that more than the 5 percent of our cargo entering the country is scanned by voting on the MarkeyNadler amendment on cargo screening.
Keywords matched
Border Patrol