John Thune: “We should have been able to have funded border security and immigration enforcement officers as part of the final…”

“We should have been able to have funded border security and immigration enforcement officers as part of the final Homeland Security funding agreement, but my Democrat colleagues refused. In fact, the Democrat leader said today that Democrats will fight legislation to fund law enforcement at DHS with 'every tool we have.' It is difficult to believe that we are here again. We all remember the 'defund the police' movement embraced by the left and members of the Democrat Party. We also remember how cities who moved to defund the police backtracked in pretty short order because it turns out, as even some leftists came to realize, we need police officers; we need law enforcement. We live in a fallen world, and there are always going to be people out there who seek to hurt and exploit the innocent, and we need men and women who will stand between the innocent and danger. We need men and women who courageously dedicate their lives to law enforcement. All of this should go without saying.”