wall system, a remain many mexico program. you got to have consequences to individuals who are knowingly breaking the law. if you don t have any consequences, you re going to continue to see these numbers month after month after month. you said it. we have a uac crisis. that s unaccompanied alien children crisis in this country because they continue to incentivize these individuals to keep coming across this border in record numbers that we have never seen. and, chad, what you do is you walked the walls and the border and you talked to the people. what s the reaction of these border communities? well, they re overwhelmed and they re begging for the administration, the federal government to do something to help. you have states like texas and arizona and others that are doing some working trying to protect their citizens. but these communities are overrun. the public safety infrastructure is overrun. and they need assistance. they re saying why won the federal government step in and
it s that 30 foot high wall now, people are falling off and dying. i don t think it s any surprise. when you have the numbers we have, month after month after month, and april was the highest month we have seen on record. you are going to see more and more deaths unfortunately, more rescues. unfortunately, also seek more assaults on border patrol. highest suicide rate in the border patrol, so a number of records all bad records that we are breaking each and every month as this crisis continues to happen. what i would say on the border wall, look, the border patrol needs something that will stop individuals or at least provide that impedance and denial so they can apprehend these individuals. but all those folks that are illegally scaling the wall or somehow trying to defeat the wall, they know what they are doing and that is breaking the law. so at the end of the day. cartels have disregard for human life. they are going to try to push people across, whether it s across the border wa
the most formidable border wall system as they call it, anywhere along the border, with two parallel barriers, one 18 feet and one 30 feet, and you know, if we compare the number of people being taken into custody, crossing now, it s four, versus a few years ago before the wall was built, it is four or five times higher and this barrier is not actually stopping people and instead what smugglers are doing is taking migrants up using makeshift ladders and in some cases using ropes to help them get down the other side, but often times just telling them to slide down the other side, as if it were like a fire pole, and that s when a lot of these injuries, and deaths are occurring, because people are up there at 30 feet, and they re climbing into the middle of the night, and they re falling backwards, sustaining neck and head injuries, and you know,
administration. we saw under the trump administration we were able to secure our border. why would we engage ourselves in a border dispute thousands of miles away in eastern europe when we can t control our own southern border. so simply this legislation says that until such time that we have operational control of the southern border, until such time that we have completed the border wall system. including the wall, and the monitoring technology that goes along with it, the roadways to allow our border patrol agents to travel up and down the entire border, then we will not be sending money overseas. we will not spill american blood or spend american treasure overseas until we have operational control of our southern border. congressman, when i speak to people over the course of the last few weeks, this point that you are trying to make is top of mind. number one thing people are talking to me at least to me at least, not the economy or inflation or crime but this concept of why are
people american citizens. whereas if you are somebody who is more interested in security. when you hear we are going to secure the border you are thinking okay, somebody is going to actually stand at the border and say hey, if you don t have papers, you have got to turn around and to the other way. he didn t say either. right. here is the fundamental problem. you know, the president had talked about again amnesty for group of individuals, not only dreamers but if you listened, he talked about a number of other populations. so in the midst of the worst border drivers where every continual pull factor driving people north, the president now announces that we are going to give millions of folks amnesty. well, guess what? you are going to have sump a push towards that border, additional populations that it s just simply the wrong approach. until you secure that border cure not talk about other populations that are here illegally and what to do with them. the first step is securing that