"We've given them some advice on how it could be done. They've tried it before, but it hasn't worked."
"But we need to do everything as a country now to deal with the COVID-19 healthcare crisis and to deal with our economy and get it back in a robust manner."
"Because if we don't complete what we started here a few years ago--and we have seen results, the fence is working--we are going to see more and more incentives for the migrants to come up here looking..."
"They all say they need the fence."
"We know there is a caravan coming up from Honduras right now and that we will see more issues with children being exploited by the cartels."
"The new 30-foot fence, it saves taxpayers money because one border agent can patrol two linear miles of fence."
"We, in Texas, experience this maybe in a way that much of the Nation doesn't."
"The real broader picture and more correct picture is that this is a cartel-driven mechanism."
"We ought to be calling in Biden administration officials to find out what they are going to do here on the border."
"Let us help our border agents patrol it and let us stop the human trafficking crisis at the border, the drug trafficking, and so, you know, that would, obviously, stop at least with the topic of the d..."
"it's really put the United States on the forefront of being a world leader in energy production."