Jared Polis: “You might recall, during the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised to build a wall with Mexico and, of course…”

“You might recall, during the campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised to build a wall with Mexico and, of course, make the Mexican Government pay for it. Well, now we are hearing that Republicans intend to come to this body, Congress, to spend your hard-earned money and mine, American taxpayer money, to build a wall with Mexico. They are estimating $10 billion to $12 billion. Well, do you know what? In comprehensive immigration reform, which I was proud to support last session, we had over $40 billion for border security. So apparently Donald Trump is building one-quarter of the wall, all directly with deficit spending. In comprehensive immigration reform, we not only paid for that border security, not only paid for that $40 billion and required people who were here illegally to pay fines and register and get right with the law, it actually would reduce the budget deficit by over $200 billion over 10 years. So what we have is one-quarter of the wall and deficit spending with Donald Trump. With Democrats, four times the wall and reduce the deficit by $200 billion. Mr. Speaker, the choice is obvious. ____________________”