Ted Budd: “I thank my friend for yielding, and I also thank my friend from Arizona for inviting us to his home State to meet with…”

“I thank my friend for yielding, and I also thank my friend from Arizona for inviting us to his home State to meet with several Members from Arizona. What an eye-opener. This is something that I have supported--the building of the wall, increasing our border security--standing strong with the President for that. But to see it in person was quite an eye-opener, and I really want to thank my friend for doing that. After spending several days in Arizona, with Customs and Border Patrol, touring areas of this southern border, I can say with more assurance than ever that we are in desperate need of a wall. In certain areas, all that separates us from another sovereign nation is a barbed wire fence. Living on a cattle farm in North Carolina, if a fence on our farm was in the same condition as that, we would be spending all night to replace it because we would be losing cows left and right. Our ranchers down there in Arizona are losing their cows into Mexico. The cows from the ranches in Mexico are coming down. You don't realize--we don't think about it much--but there are ranchers on the Mexican side that actually want a wall. They say: Please, build the wall. We don't think about hearing it that much, but we do because they don't want the cartels coming into their ranch and cutting their fences. There are a lot of problems.…”