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By my colleagues congressman herd and aguilaaguilar. it would invest in technology, invest in personnel at the border and in some cases where appropriate invest in additional barriers. so i think -- but in exchange for that, we get these other pieces that we really need including that piece of legislation would have included daca protections and also included investing into that immigration backlog and providing that humanitarian aspect that we need at the border and then also addressing some of...

The best thing to do. the fact of the matter is i voted for the secure fence act way back in 06. that was a time when it made sense to build the barriers. but now we have new technologies. better ways to secure the border. theres no argument over the need to do it. do it in regular order. im sure she would say she would have hearings. you can bring your experts, theyll bring their experts and well get this thing done. right now theres one emergency. and that is, you have 800,000 hard working ame...

Foot medieval wall is not going to work and never was and lets stop pretending it is. you appeared on cnn to discuss the border wall. i want to play a piece of that interview for our audience. >> i will definitely i dont know if its steel, i will vote for some money for physical barriers. its not going to be across the entire 2000 mile stretch and it certainly not going to be a concrete wall. >> okay. so you didnt say a concrete wall but you were talking about border barriers. what exactly is th...

Political rationale for either side to back down but a growing concern, i think, as the shutdown kicks in to yet another day to find a way to get to the some of these essential functions of the government back open and get these folks back pay. >> three or so senators, republicans, saying, lets get to something. solve the issue with those not being paid and debate the issue of the wall. also seeing movement on the other side. representative katie hill, a new member of congress, california democr...

Priority is, what i want and they ask for 1.6 building, 1.6 billion for border security. not to build a wall. >> no, thats right. this point has been overlooked because i guess the presidents folks want it ignored because he totally changed his own budget. now that was pass nd the senate appropriations committee. we did add some language that money for walls and barriers should be restricted to existing barriers and that chris was supported by the republican senators on the appropriations commit...

I think the statistics could show we could easily double that and look at the numbers that we apprehended illegal aliens, take into consideration as well the facts are, and this is true, human trafficking routes are alive and well, drug smuggling routes through the southern border are alive and well. there are really bad people that are illegally entering this country every single day. thats real. that crisis has to be addressed. >> and im going to give jorge a chance to respond to that. >> ther...

>> democrats arent stuck on the wall. you know, we have been moving forward. we have passed bipartisan legislation to reopen the government. we passed the big appropriations bill that would have everything refunded until september, then we broke it down to individual departments and passed each one, again with bipartisan support on every one and sent them on to the senate. mitch mcconnell wont take them up and send them to the congress. the president is stuck on the wall. >> when it comes to the...

Maintenance of 700 miles of barriers that already existed. >> you are absolutely right. three u.s. presidents, george senior and bush and all of them approved walls and fences. republicans and democrats have approved walls and fences. how come we dont want donald trump to build his own wall? the reason is very simpl simple -- first, because it is use less and there is not a national emergency like 9/11 when a wall were built and third, it is really important, i think donald trump has created a s...

The ports of entry or through the mail or express consignments. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, phoenix. chris cabrera, joining us now, a border patrol agent and a border patrol spokeswoman. chris, thanks for taking the time. and we heard that the president says drugs are a big problem for the wall but hard narcotics are mostly coming from the legal ports of entry, as you know. so how is the wall the solution? >> well, you know, ana, years ago, that may have been the case, it used to be that the onl...

We had that montage there, you have used the word, you may have changed your mind about using i it. >> i never changed my mind about the utility of physical barriers, that has never been the issue from a peer to two years ago all we were hearing was we were going to build a wall and the inference was that it would be all too thousand miles of the border, but that is simply not feasible. to simply build a wall and walk away from it would be a medieval solution to what is a very complex and dynami...