Here in Texas, we know that border walls are effective. President Trump saw that firsthand on Thursday, but the ones who really need to see it are the Democrats.
The President has shown incredible fortitude in holding out to get us the 234 miles of barriers that law enforcement professionals tell us are necessary to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
I was proud to welcome him to Texas when he came to tour an existing section of the border wall. I only wish he had been here to celebrate Democrats in Congress doing the right thing and providing the funding to build the wall along the many unprotected portions of the border.
Instead, President Trump, Senators Ted Cruz, and John Cornyn, Attorney General Ken Paxton, and I listened to our Border Patrol agents brief us on the problems they continue to face. They’re clearly distressed by the knowledge that those problems will remain unaddressed until Democrats abandon their obstructionism or President Trump exercises his legal authority to declare a national emergency.