Political Quotes

“Well, think about the staging that had to take place for that, that a vehicle that heavy, to be able to cross that fence, obviously--and the interesting thing is they used our own I-beam and channel to support the ramps that would bear that weight for that truck to get over it. This is not a static situation. Just building the fence is not enough. We have got to have the aerial surveillance, the unmanned aircraft, the aerostats. Looking into Mexico and seeing the staging that takes place for an operation like that to take place--you have been in the military, you understand this--that if you are going to--it literally looked like a military operation where they cut this down and ramped over it and drove over it. If we are looking into Mexico and see that, we need people in forward operating bases that can react immediately, not 20 minutes later, not 30 minutes later, because they are already over and gone. So this has got to be a combination of things. I am fine with the fence. We can build the fence as high and wide and as long as we want to, but we have got to be able to interdict. We have got to be able to see them staging, because they are not carrying ramping material on their backs for 3 or 4 miles to the fence. This happened fairly close to the fence, and we should have been able to see that and stop it.…”