When they come
by land, they are often hidden in parts of cars, in the carburetor or
the exhaust tank--hidden. They will be able to come through because the
wall obviously is going to have portals in it where trucks and cars can
go through. So there is no money for the border wall, not one plug
nickel. We do have money, of course, for border protection, which both
parties have always supported, and comprehensive immigration reform. Senator McCain and I, in a bipartisan bill supported by 68 Members of
this body, made sure we had very strong border protection. But it has
to be smart, it has to be cost effective, and it has to work. Early on in this debate, Democrats clearly laid out our principles
and insisted there would be no poison pill riders in this bill. We were
able to knock out more than 160 poison pill riders from the final
agreement, including the border wall, anti-labor measures that hurt the
working people of America, and efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. So
many women depend on these clinics for their health. And we were able
to achieve significant investments in domestic programs that help the
middle class and those struggling to get to the middle class.
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