Speaker, I rise today to stand against a proposal
that we will vote on later this week to spend more than $1.6 billion to
build a wall that we don't need at our border with Mexico. We have never had lower apprehensions coming from Mexico in my
lifetime. We had 105 apprehensions per Border Patrol agent 10 years
ago; last year, it was 25. The border has never been safer. We have never spent more money--
$19.5 billion a year--and instead of putting this $1.6 billion toward
jobs or healthcare or reducing student loan debt, we are trying to
solve a problem that we don't have in this country.
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