it tonight. hopefully the democrats in the room will be listening not just to the president but to the people of the country, to the families, the angel moms across the country. families that lost a child, a brother, a sister, a mother to the opioid crisis. we know 300 americans a week are killed by heroin alone. 90% comes across the southern border. if there is one person we can save by securing the border we should be doing that. again, as we pointed out before and others have, most of the heroin comes across at the legal points of entry. certainly not all. not all, but most. legal ports of entry is where most of it happens. can you clarify this morning on february 5, is it a wall or a fence at this point? would the president support a fence or only a wall? as the president said, you can call it a wall, a barrier. what we are looking at is a steel barrier that you can see through but that keeps people
and you know, the officers at the ports of entry are phenomenal. they re fantastic at identifying fresh tool marks that shouldn t be there, a screw that was recently turned that wouldn t be a reason for that, they can pick up on that. they re experts. human art and intelligence together. absolutely. what they find, about 24 kilos of hard drugs. minutes later, field testing reveals cocaine. situations like this, were a central tenet of president trump s argument this week for a wall. our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drug, including meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone. 90% of which floods across from our southern border. but i wanted to learn just how effective the wall would be.
the officers are phenomenal. they are fantastic at identifying fresh marks that shouldn t be there. a screw that was turned. they can pick up on that. reporter: human art and intelligence together. absolutely. reporter: they find about 24 kilos of hard drugs. minutes later, field testing reveals cocaine. situations like this were a central tenet of president trump s argument this week for a wall. our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegal drugs including meth, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. every week 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone. 90% of which floods across from our southern border. reporter: i wanted to learn how effective the wall would be.
fresh tool marks that shouldn t be there. a school that s been recently turned, that there wouldn t be a reason for it being recently turned, they can pick up on that. human art and intelligence together. absolutely. what they find, about 24 key low kilos of hard drugs. minutes later, field test rg in reveals cocaine. situations like this were a central tenant of president trump s president trump s argument this week for a wall. our southern border is a pipeline for vast quantities of illegaldrugs, including method, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl. every week, 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone. 90% of when floods across from our southern border. reporter: but i wanted to learn just how effective the wall would be. this literally is a physical wall in between two countries that we re looking at here.
statistics show that illegal southern border arrests are near the lowest point in almost 20 years. and multiple studies have found that as immigration has gone up, crime has gone down. one texas study found that undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than u.s. citizens. the president also pointing to the opioid epidemic as part of his pitch. every week 300 of our citizens are killed by heroin alone. 90% of which floods across from our southern border. reporter: while these statistics are true, the majority of heroin that comes across the border is smuggled through legal points of entry. meaning, that a border wall would likely do little to help. democrats quick to pounce on the administration s credibility issues. sadly, much of what we heard from president trump throughout this census shutdown has been full of misinformation and even malice. the president has chosen fear. reporter: the president s speech comes amid signs that