Bob Menendez: “I appreciate the views of my distinguished colleague from Vermont. I particularly appreciate his support for…”

“I appreciate the views of my distinguished colleague from Vermont. I particularly appreciate his support for comprehensive immigration reform for which he has been a champion. However, I must take the opportunity to note that the underlying amendment Senator Salazar and I were addressing, for which no point of order was raised against and which, in essence, was adopted by the Senate, goes to the very heart of this issue. As a matter of fact, there was a colloquy between Senator Tester and Senator Graham that basically said to some degree that, in fact, the resources Senator Graham had in his amendment, adopted by the Senate, could go to the northern border. What Senator Salazar and I want to make clear is that, in fact, either we protect all of the country or we protect none of it.”