In the late winter, early spring of this year, one of the most conservative senators in the United States Senate, Jim Langford, took the lead on writing this legislation. It did several things. Two that I want to highlight. One is that It added 1500 US border Patrol agents to the border. and it won the endorsement of that very conservative border Patrol union. Also, it deployed technology to the southern border that allows us to screen every vehicle that comes in, … (07:06–07:11)
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