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Yes. Well, that's a good message to former President Trump because he's the person that's talking to Republican members of the House to block this bill from going on the floor. They want to -- they want chaos on the border that they can continue to campaign on into November.

I had been one of the members that have been the most critical on the border with both administrations. And I support this bill because it addresses a lot of the critical issues that are impacting the country -- across the country with a mass migration that we're receiving on our southern border. And we would have been able to have 3000 -- 4000 more asylum officers, over a hundred new immigration judges to process these claims faster and be able to remove folks who don't qualify under the asylum laws now.

We would have had 1100 new agents on the ground. These are all great proposals that will help fix and alleviate the problem on our southern border.

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Well, I think the critical bill that we have on the floor right now, we didn't have a bipartisan agreement like that in the last three years. And the efforts -- I mean, we could have always done more. I've been talking about this for three years. I said the same thing under the Trump administration. And that -- you know, we're not going to rip children from mother's arms and separate families and caged children the way the Trump administration did. But we are going to bring law and order to the southern border.

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Well, clearly, it's an unconstitutional bill that was passed under Governor Abbott. And this is just a continuation of Abbott's political theater that he's using the southern border for. He's invested over $10 billion in building walls and bringing National Guard people -- troops and creating buoys and barbed wire and it has not curbed migration to Texas Southern border.

He has squandered a monumental amount of taxpayer dollars that could have been used for our public schools or taking care of senior citizens or our veterans here in Texas. And instead, he's playing politics with the southern border and at no avail of bringing any real solutions. Migrants continue to come in high numbers to the state of Texas, and he has not been able to slow that migration down. So, what he does on the southern border is for no other reason than to showcase that to the country.

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Thank you, Wolf.

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