Tim Walberg: “I thank my colleague from Missouri for taking this on this evening, to make a point that we are not just talking…”

“I thank my colleague from Missouri for taking this on this evening, to make a point that we are not just talking politics here, but we are talking lives. We are talking freedom. We are talking opportunity. We are talking security. We must secure our border, Madam Speaker. Driving to the Detroit airport today to fly here, I took note of the number of walls that have been erected along Interstate 94 just to secure the communities developed along the highway from noise and sight problems. We take a lot of effort to do those type of things, but we have some people who, for some reason--political, I believe--want to stop a wall or a barrier from being developed that the people of this country want to see. It is not because, as it has been said, that we hate people outside of the walls. It is that we love people inside of the walls, and we want to pass that love on to people who desire the American Dream and desire to be part of the American ideal. We see 31 percent of all the women migrating up from the southern countries who are sexually assaulted on the way up, and 17 percent of the males have been sexually assaulted on the way up. We have a human trafficking problem that reaches all across the United States. A lot of those problems result from a border wall that is not secured. We have an opioid epidemic in our country that is devastating the dreams of a generation or more.…”