Sean Reyes: “Mr. Chairman, to my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from Ohio, if this amendment were to become law, then that…”

“Mr. Chairman, to my good friend and colleague, the gentleman from Ohio, if this amendment were to become law, then that would mean that this country would be in serious trouble, because what this amendment does, it advocates the equivalent of martial law for communities along the border, the equivalent of martial law, where whole regions of this country who are already suffering from lack of infrastructure, lack of support, lack of money, many, many different needs that we have along our border communities would, in a very disparate way, be affected by the utilization of the military, under the guise of terrorism. My friend speaks about good legislation sometimes taking many years. A bad idea I think does not deserve its time and its place, and certainly this amendment does not deserve to be considered by this body.”