Tuesday, January 08, 2019

More reasons for a wall

In The Daily Wire, Ryan Saavedra has a video produced by the RNC showing some reasons why we need a border wall. Ryan also lists these RNC website talking points: The website laid out five facts that will be part of the Republican Party's push to get Democrats to take action on border security:

Fact #1: In four Customs and Border Protection sectors where physical barriers have been expanded — El Paso, Yuma, Tucson, and San Diego — illegal traffic has dropped by at least 90%.

Fact #2: In fiscal year 2018, U.S. Border Patrol seized or helped seize 282,000 pounds of cocaine, 248,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 6,500 pounds of heroin, and 2,400 pounds of fentanyl.

Fact #3: In 2018, over 17,000 adults arrested at the border had prior criminal records. This included over 6,000 gang members, a major number of those members were from MS-13.

Fact #4: The Democrats would rather risk the safety of hard-working Americans than work with President Trump to secure our nation’s borders. But in 2013, all 54 Senate Democrats, including Chuck Schumer, voted to pass legislation that provided $46 billion to build a physical barrier on the border.

Fact #5: Nancy Pelosi and her hyper-liberal Congressional colleagues just passed a bill to give $54 BILLION to foreign governments, but Democrats won’t allow just $5 billion to secure our borders and protect American citizens.

The site also highlighted previous statements made by Democrat leaders going all the way back to the Clinton administration.

"When we use phrases like 'undocumented workers,' we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose," Senator Chuck Schumer said in 2009. "If you don't think it's illegal, you are not going to say it. I think it is illegal and wrong, and we have to change it."
Go here to watch the RNC video and a video of Schumer in 2009 taking the exact opposite position he is taking now.

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