Political Quotes

“Reclaiming my time, I will tell that story, because what happened is very interesting. The Border Patrol was there and an individual did cross the fence. Sometimes people say: Well, the people can climb over the fence. They can, but it slows them down and allows the border agents, using cameras and being there live on the scene, to intercept those people. And, sure enough, there we are, standing--I think we kind of acted as blockers. This fellow comes over the fence and drops down. The border agents are moving fast, and there we are standing where the natural escape route would be. While we didn't do anything heroic, and we had to watch the border security agents do their job very professionally, they got the gentleman into custody fairly quickly, it was because there was a wall, agents, and a whole team of equipment working together: the cameras, the wall, and the agents working together. If you don't have a wall there, they are never seeing that guy; they are never catching that guy, because he had to rise up and be seen in order to cross the border wall/fence. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Budd).”