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On the recordJanuary 22, 2019
That was his sister, who could talk about him. So that is why there is urgency to this thing. And, you know, go down there. Like Congressman Griffith mentioned, this is just a start. The $5.7 billion, it is a start to really get the job done and add enough fence to help these agents. If you do it for nothing else, help these agents so that at least it is quarantined where they come in. I compare it to a football game. I think I mentioned I had a friend of mine who is deathly opposed to the wall. I knew he went to the Clemson-Alabama game, and I knew he had tickets. I said: Did you have a problem? He said: With what? I said: Getting into the game. He said: Oh, no. I had a ticket. I said: Did you go in at one place? He said: Yeah, I went in at one place. We were in line, not for long. I said: You couldn't just walk in? Then he got it. He said: That is different. I said: Well, wait a minute. If you go to a football game and have it walled off where you had to go to a point of entry, you tell me how that is different than what we are talking about on this wall. He said, and this astounded me: Well, it wasn't a concrete wall. I said: Okay. It was a combination of metal. It was a combination of posts, concrete. It was a barrier. How would you feel if people had just walked in there and taken your seat and hadn't paid for it? What is the difference? He couldn't tell me. He could not tell me, because he couldn't.…
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Ralph Norman
Republican · South Carolina
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Jan 22, 2019

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