Last year, you had
a little over 400,000. Do you know who so many of those apprehensions were? They were kids,
young families, scared and frightened, leaving the most horrific
brutality that we can imagine from the Northern Triangle countries of
Central America, literally fleeing for their lives to this country,
which is comprised of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, and is
the very foundation of our success. Apparently, this is who we are
trying to wall off and protect ourselves from with this $1.6 billion
boondoggle. We now see, in the last 4 years, that more Mexican nationals are
leaving the United States for Mexico than are coming north from that
country into ours. We have twice the Border Patrol agents that we did
in 2001: 20,000 Border Patrol agents. Today, you and I, the American
taxpayer, are spending $19.5 billion a year. We are long past the point of diminishing returns with this very
precious public resource.
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