CAPITO SAYS ADDITIONAL FUNDING ON IMMIGRATION ISSUES NEEDS TO FOCUS MORE ON BORDER SECURITY

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"There has to be something significant on the border.

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Last month alone, over 269,000 people were apprehended at the southern border, the highest number ever. I mean, we keep saying this, this is the highest number ever. And it keeps getting higher and higher and the administration is not making the significant moves to try to deter people from coming into this country.

I will not vote for something that only at the border provides more processing agents so that people can come in quicker, get processed and come into the interior of the United States more. I will not vote for something that just throws money at a problem that needs to be deterred and curtailed in the numbers.

So if it's more healthcare, if it's more transportation, if it's more soft-sided tents to do the processing, no. We need significant immigration reform that I think we could get in here.

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Number two, the remain in Mexico policy, and that is saying to someone who comes in "You can have your asylum claim heard, but you have to wait in Mexico. You're not going to wait eight years in the United States of America. That is a deterrent because people want into this country; that's their goal.

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At least, barriers do prevent -- and where people are coming in is where we don't have significant barrier. That could be wall; that could be more virtual types of barrier."

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