Sean Reyes: “Voting to send armed military personnel to the border and patrolling our Nation's borders is not a pro-enforcement vote.…”

“Voting to send armed military personnel to the border and patrolling our Nation's borders is not a pro-enforcement vote. It does not mean that you are tough on crime; it does not mean that you are tough on drug traffickers or tough on illegal aliens. If anyone wants to be tough on crime, wants to be tough on drug traffickers, then you need to come spend some time on the border. Come spend some time with me working with the Border Patrol. Come spend some time with me working with Customs, with DEA. If you want to be tough on crime and you want to understand how tough it is to patrol the Nation's borders, come with me and see it for more than a couple of hours. Do not stand here in this House and talk about how tough we can be and how tough we should be and the kinds of things that we are or are not doing. The truth is, all across the border, both on the southern and the northern border, we have got Border Patrol officers, we have got Customs officers, we have got Inspectors, we have got DEA, they are all engaged in enforcing this Nation's laws against both illegal immigration and narcotics trafficking.”