Political Quotes

“I would say that we heard this repeatedly, and what we heard is that we need the wall to help channel this flow of illegal immigrants. We need the wall to make sure that we have some idea of what is going on. We need the electronic surveillance. So this is not a one-size-fits-all kind of situation, but we need the electronic surveillance to help when we are monitoring the wall. We need additional folks on horseback. We need additional canine units. We heard from one agent that we need, at the Customs department, density equipment so they can test to see if a tire is supposed to be a certain density. If it is twice as dense as it is supposed to be, they know that something is being hidden in that tire, some contraband, most likely drugs, and so this is important. {time} 1715 Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Biggs) for additional questions. I would like to continue our colloquy. I don't know if his colleague, also from Arizona, Mr. Gosar, would like to join in that colloquy as well. I would say to the gentleman, Mr. Biggs of Arizona, did he also find it interesting that almost everybody who we talked to, and certainly all of the border guards and all of the ranchers right on the border, specifically said a wall would be helpful; but there were other things that needed to be done as well?”