María Elvira Salazar: “I oppose the construction of this fence because at the end of the day this is not going to fix our borders. It is not…”

“I oppose the construction of this fence because at the end of the day this is not going to fix our borders. It is not going to deal with the lawlessness that we currently are having to deal with with respect to immigration, and it is not in the long-term interests of the United States of America. For me, I may be the No. 100 U.S. Senator, but I have heroes on both sides of the aisle. I remember Ronald Reagan when he went to the Berlin Wall and he told Mr. Gorbachev that he should take down the Berlin Wall. He was about taking down walls and bringing communities together. I remember John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a person who inspired my whole life in politics and our country. I remember him working on creating the Alliance for Progress with the notion being that the Western Hemisphere would be a much more successful hemisphere if we were able to work with nations that were all a part of this hemisphere. Yet what we are doing today on this national security issue of immigration reform is abandoning principles and allowing politics to triumph.”