20 years ago i started going out to the desert doing right now to bring water to people that. Because the people that are across you know quasi view all the way they. They can i get theres no visas for these people so they risk their lives crossing of the desert or the mountains or the ocean where there are cities like san diego theres a wall where theres no cities theres no wall and thats where people cross and thats where people die so every summer more people die because of the wall that exists right now then. The entire history of the berlin wall. And you can see this is part of operation gatekeeper 1994 and as we walk the walk to the end right here just at the bottom of this little hill thats the the a wall that was george bush and if you look further down theres no wall. No its not a doubt most of the people in the United States do not want the wall all of the people in mexico do not want the wall and i guarantee you mexico is not going to pay one penny for their wall because the
The u. S. Southern border. Good morning, everybody. The hearing will come to order. Ill make an Opening Statement and then senator feinstein and i think senator cornyn and durbin would also like to make a statement. Then well swear in the witness and get on with the business before us. Before i make my Opening Statement, there was a meeting last night with senator shelby and senator mcconnell and the republican members of the Appropriations Committee. And theres a lot of talk about the disaster at the border in terms of humanitarian assistance needed yesterday. So i think the game plan is that were going to take the 4. 5 billion that was in the disaster package that was unfortunately taken out and mark it up next week as a standalone proposition to get money flowing to the border to deal with the Housing Conditions and take some stress, not only off the agents, but the migrants. I think it would be money wellspent as 3. 3 billion for humanitarian assistance increases in the shelter cap