I was privileged on Monday to host Secretary Kristi Noem to come to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, where we have the advanced training center for our Border Patrol agents, where We train over 16,000 [Border Patrol agents] a year to meet the challenges on our southern and our northern borders. And she talked a lot about the progress that the president has made in terms of border security. But without this bill, that progress would be stopped in its tracks. (01:23–01:32)
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