Brooks Supports Border Wall Funding

Washington, DC— Thursday, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-05) voted “Yes” on the House Amendment to H.R. 695 that provides $5.7 billion in border wall funding and avoids a presidential veto and government shutdown. The House passed wall funding on a 217 “aye” to 185 “nay” vote, thus sending H.R. 695 to the Senate. Republicans supported wall funding and border security by a 217 to 8 margin. All 178 Democrats voted against wall funding and border security. No Democrat voted “aye.”

Congressman Brooks said, “Illegal aliens are a scourge on America that flood across America’s borders with impunity. America must stop this arrogant and dangerous defiance of American sovereignty! Each year, thousands (and perhaps tens of thousands) of American citizens are dead because of murders, vehicular homicides, and drug overdoses caused by illegal aliens and their related drug cartels. Quite frankly, I don’t understand those elected officials who put political power, their own egos, and illegal aliens over the interests of American citizens. It may sound cold but it is true. These elected officials have the blood of innocent and dead Americans on their hands.”

Brooks continued, “In places where the U.S. has a border wall, illegal crossings are far less frequent that in places where we don’t. It’s not rocket science. While a border wall will not stop all illegal aliens, it will dramatically cut the flow and save American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars that are now diverted from struggling  American families to support illegal aliens.”

Brooks continued, “Some estimates peg the number of illegal aliens currently living in the United States as high as 22 million,[1] and estimates are that illegal aliens cost American taxpayers $116 billion annually.[2] That’s $300 in additional taxes each man, woman, and child in America is forced to pay in local, state, and federal levels for people whose first act on American soil is to violate American law. $5.7 billion is a small investment when you think we could save $116 billion a year simply by securing our border and building the necessary wall.”

Brooks continued, “Far too many illegal aliens have taken American jobs and suppressed American wages. What’s more, far too many illegal aliens have committed crimes against American citizens. Only a few months ago Mollie Tibbets was murdered by an illegal alien in Iowa.  In my home county of Madison, illegal aliens murdered a grandmother, and then brutally murdered her young, innocent granddaughter.” 

Brooks concluded, “Open-borders Democrats are more committed to illegal aliens than they are protecting American citizens. As for me, I stand with American citizens. I want border security. I want the wall. It helps saves American lives. It helps saves American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars at a bargain price of a relatively paltry $5 billion.”

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[1] Federation for American Immigration Reform, The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers, September 27, 2017.  https://fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers

[2] The number of undocumented immigrants in the United States: Estimates based on demographic modeling with data from 1990 to 2016, September 21 , 2018. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201193