Matt Rosendale: “This wide-open border is a national security threat. It is much more than a monetary problem that has been placed upon…”

“This wide-open border is a national security threat. It is much more than a monetary problem that has been placed upon the taxpayers across the United States. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 billion to $500 billion a year is being taken out of the revenue that we should be spending on our veterans, that we should be spending on our own citizens, and it is being spent on illegal immigrants as they come into our country. Everyone is always striving to find a better place. They want to have more opportunities for their family, for their children, for their grandchildren. We hear about the Dreamers. We hear about the Dreamers all the time. Guess what? American children and citizens have dreams, too. My children have dreams of what they would like to accomplish in this country. My grandchildren have dreams of what they would like to accomplish and what they see that this country could be, and we are stripping away all of those dreams when we continue to leave this border wide open. I have grave concerns about not only the millions of people who have come in here illegally that we have had encounters with but, as has been touched upon this evening, I have grave concerns about the several million people who have come in as got-aways and have not had any encounters with any law enforcement whatsoever. What kind of problems can they cause to our infrastructure?…”