I am simply pointing out that what he has said is not what
he has done, including his promise to build a ``great, great wall on
our southern border'' and force Mexico to pay for that wall. Instead,
he asked Congress for $1.4 billion in taxpayer money to start
construction. I was part of the Gang of Eight in the Senate that negotiated the
immigration bill--four Democrats and four Republicans--over 8 months. We had $11 billion of border security. By the time we passed the bill
in the Senate, there was $40 billion of border security in that bill. It was paid for, unlike a lot of stuff we do, and it was not the
taxpayers who were paying for it. It was the immigrants who were paying
for it in their fees to this country. Why is that not a better way of doing it? Mexico is not going to pay for it.
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