That is what is at stake here, Mr. Speaker. We are a nation of laws, but we are, today, a nation of not yet fully
enforced laws, and we have had a President in the past who seemed to
want to bring in the maximum number of illegal aliens and leave them
here and keep them here. He never demonstrated a desire to enforce the
law as he opened up the borders of America to people who are coming
from terrorist-spawning countries. Now, thankfully, we have Donald
Trump, who has stepped up to close those borders back down again and
get a handle on this migration so that the American people can be
safer. But we will be a lot safer with a fence, a wall, and a fence on
our southern border. By the way, at this point now, the United States is spending,
annually, $13.4 billion a year--that is billion with a B--to secure our
southern border, and we are getting perhaps 25 percent enforcement
efficiency in that southern border--25 percent. That, by the way, is
the testimony of the Border Patrol before the Committee on the
Judiciary. It is not a number that is brought up from someone who wants
to be critical of them. I salute the Border Patrol. They have got a tough job. But their
operation has not been managed for the purpose of securing our border
and achieving border security. They have tried to redefine it as to
something else. Oh, $13.4 billion a year spent on our 2,000-mile southern border.
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