CAPITO SAYS OPEN BORDER IS A NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE

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"It is an open border essentially. It can't be that. It's dangerous. We need to look at our national security. Known terrorists have been apprehended there. That is frightening in and of itself.

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We keep saying this -- the highest number ever, and it keeps getting higher and higher.

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There has to be something significant on the border.

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

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In other words let's turn someone back quicker rather than waiting seven or eight years if their asylum claim is not legitimate. Number two, the Remain in Mexico policy. That is the policy President Trump put in place that turned the numbers way down and that is saying to somebody who comes in that you can have your asylum claim heard, but you have to wait in Mexico. That is a deterrent.

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We see that at least barriers do prevent. And where people are coming in, we don't have significant barriers. It could be a wall or a virtual barrier. Anything we do at point of entry or pre-point of entry that will stop the flow -- that is what I'm interested in.

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He can do these things, many of them on his own, but he's just chosen not to."

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