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When it comes to its function, it assists the 45,000 men and women of the customs and border protection, no question. if you want to deal with a drug issue you don't do it with the southwest border. you've got to get at addiction in baltimore and in detroit and other cities across the united states. you've got to operate against mexican cartels who are the most organized criminal element in america's 200 largest cities. but the drugs that do come through the southwest border tend to come through the ports of entry, hidden in compartments in trucks, on trains, on individual passengers. they com...

Colombia into central america and then get moved in a different manner. so you simply can't deal with the drug issue through the border. the border shouldn't be open. it should be protected. we should -- we need a better way of managing asylum. but this is not the way you deal with a chronic problem of addiction in america. >> on this question of the president perhaps declaring a national emergency, and ordering it built, your fellow west pointer senator jack reed democrat rhode island says this the idea that president trump is considering declaring a phony national emergency as a pretext to t...

In trucks, on trains, on individual passengers. they come in by air. they come in by submarine out of colombia into central america. and then get moved in a different manner. so you simply can't deal with the drug issue through the border. the border shouldn't be open. it should be protected. we should -- we need a better way of managing asylum. but this is not the way you deal with a chronic problem of addiction in america. >> on this question of the president perhaps declaring a national emergency, and ordering it built, your fellow west pointer senator jack reed democrat rhode island says t...

The border shouldn't be open, it should be protected. but this is not the way you deal with a chronic problem of addiction in america. >> with the president declaring a national security and ordering it built, jack reed of rhode island says this. the idea that president trump is considering declaring a phony national emergency as a pretext to take billions of dollars away from our troops for his wall should alarm people. >> it looks to me like it's flat illegal. you can't spend money that's appropriated. that's what the constitution says.