On the recordJanuary 23, 2019
Yes. It was one of the Angel Moms, Mary Ann Mendoza, who said it well. She said: A wall won't stop everyone, but no wall will stop no one. They wanted a wall. There was not one person that I met, and that we met, that didn't advocate for a wall. But they also understood that you need to have the infrastructure, that is to say, roads. You need to have cameras and sensors. You need to actually have more boots on the ground: better vehicles that can get there, and, where necessary, horses. Don't forget that they were using dogs, for instance, to sniff out currency. We have a shortage of dogs at the ports of entry and in the interior between the ports of entry. They need lighter weight. We talked to one agent who said that when he is out there wearing his full bulletproof vest and the whole harness, if it is 110 degrees ambient temperature--which, by the way, most of our summer is going to be well above 100--he said that quickly rises and you are at 145 to 160 degrees as a Border Patrol agent. So, yes, we need a lot. But the one thing that is foundational to all of this, to try to get the border under control, is fencing.
