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Senate and had a vote on the floor on a bipartisan bill that had its origins in the house where evening i think 54 both republicans and democrats co-sponsored a bill that had a pathway for dreamers in exchange for strengthening border security. that only got 52 votes. we also had a vote that same day on a much stronger border security for dreamer pathway to citizenship bill led by senator collins and senator joe manchin, a bipartisan group of two dozen senators negotiated hard on that. that included $25 billion in secure long-term commitments for border infrastructure. and frankly, that bill o...

Form of law enforcement personnel, technology, and border infrastructure. >> 650 miles of fence or barriers already exist. about 1300 miles still needed. average construction cost so far has been more than $3 million a mile. the project is not without controversy. the feds and local police department's are planning for protests. just last week, the state of california filed suit joining immigration rights groups and environmental activists in their opposition to the trump wall. >> although we are an environmental organization, we do see commonality with other organizations fighting other eleme...

Border infrastructure. >> 650 miles of fence or barriers already exist. about 1300 miles still needed. average construction cost so far has been more than $3 million a mile. the project is not without controversy. the feds and local police department's are planning for protests. just last week, the state of california filed suit joining immigration rights groups and environmental activists in their opposition to the trump wall. >> although we are an environmental organization, we do see commonality with other organizations fighting other elements of the trump administration's approach to immig...

Federal workers to start building the wall that can happen immediately thanks to $109 in the homeland security budget slated to go toward border infrastructure. take a listen to paul ryan. >> they are facilitating the deployment of the fence. we voted for this in 2006 along with plenty of people like the minority leader of the senate who voted for a secure fence. >> then candidate trump and mexican president pena nieto let let -- met last august. he said at the time he didn't think they could find common ground and he took a lot of criticism for that. now he stated they will not pay for the wa...

Are growing right now and generating jobs today. and that growth and those millions of jobs, many of them have to do precisely with the greatest trade exchanges that we have ever seen amongst these great nations. i would say that the potential of north america tied to these three countries is such that within our own nations we have great deal to do to make the most of these opportunities for greater exchanges amongst our peoples. as we've mentioned today, we have progressed on various fronts. for instance, we've advanced on the deregulation in our countries, in our own countries as well as am...