Congressman Mike Rogers made the following statement today regarding H.R. 3548.

“I was proud to support H.R. 3548 in the House Homeland Security Committee yesterday. This bill authorizes $10 billion for border security, including wall construction and technology upgrades. It also increases the number of border patrol and customs agents so we have more boots on the ground and gives border states the increased flexibility to deploy National Guard troops to hotspots. I strongly support President Trump’s position that we must build a border wall. This bill provides important tools that the Trump Administration will be able to use to implement much needed border security reforms.

“However, I was shocked by some of the Democrat members on the committee using the markup to propose joke amendments, replace existing law with nonsense and generally wasting the time of everyone present. I do not think Americans find strengthening our border security and protecting American sovereignty a laughing matter.”

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