Senator Marshall: Border Patrol Must Be Funded to Stop Violent Illegals

Senator Marshall Joins Washington Watch with Tony Perkins

Washington - U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined Tony Perkins on Washington Watchto discuss the Senate's continued efforts to pass ICE and Border Patrol funding, the thousands of illegal immigrants still in the country, Trump's border wall, and the STOP Act to protect minors from harmful transgender procedures.

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On funding ICE and DHS:

"Well, they don't call us the most deliberate body in the world for nothing, and these lunches without any cameras on us- that's when the real debates occur. And Tony, we are the party of law and order, and it's time to fund ICE; it's time to fund Border Patrol. Our friends across the aisle - not one of them are going to vote to fund police; they are the 'defund the police' party. So it is time for us to move on. We still got some crying and gnashing of teeth yet to do, but we'll get there. It may be this week, it may be next week, but we're going to get there."

On illegal immigrants still in the country:

"Yeah, it is, and I don't have to remind you or your listeners that there are thousands, maybe tens of thousands of violent terrorists still out there in this country that need to be removed, not to mention the violent illegal aliens on top of that as well. So we need to fund ICE, and we need to fund Border Patrol. These folks, they pretty well have bottled up the border, but they're also stopping all that fentanyl from crossing the border, as well, it's not just the people. So yes, I think we can hear the siren that it's time to get our job done. It's time to stop arguing and get on with the job here and vote to fund ICE and border patrol."

On the Trump border wall:

"Yeah, it is amazing. And quietly - don't tell anybody - but we're building the Trump wall. I don't know if it's going to be taking one or two years yet to finish it, but we funded that as well. So we're quietly making progress, so even if, heaven forbid, a Democrat president gets elected, at least we have a wall to start with as well. But it is amazing, people soon forget. But again, we're the party of law and order, we're the party of secure the border, the Democrats are the party of defund the police."

On the STOP Act to protect minors from transgender procedures:

"Yeah, well, Tony, first of all, thank you for standing beside us right now, and your listeners for standing beside us for such a time as this. We've been called to stand up and right the wrong here. When I was elected, I knew I would have to fight to protect the sanctity of life and to protect our Second Amendment, but I never dreamed that I would have to protect children - young adolescents in this case - from child abuse. And make no mistake about it, that's what this is: this is child abuse. These children in no way are ready to make such a big, permanent, irreversible decision in their lifetime, and that's why we introduced this bill to give them some type of civil recourse, so even 1, 2, 5 years after the procedure was done, they could go back and sue the doctor and the hospital where it was done as well. But this is child abuse. I think, you know, 100 years from now, when they're writing the history of medicine, this will be the darkest chapter. They're going to look at this and say, 'What?! What was that barbaric generation doing then?' Tony, these procedures are going to cause irreversible damage. I've taken care of women with mastectomies, and one of the problems they get is lymphedema. So, the veins in their armpits swell up much like varicose veins, and chronic pain from it. The bottom surgeries, I can't imagine. It would be PG-13 for me to describe what problems that's going to cause, but these are irreversible. These people are going to end up with infertility, if nothing else. It is absolutely child abuse, and we're here to stand up and say 'No more. This is not right. These kids are not ready to make that type of lifelong decision.'

"Yeah, you're spot on, Tony. We have won a couple of cases now, and that'll become, you know, the precedent, for lack of a better term, and it will lead to more and more and bigger lawsuits. And I think the pain and suffering on this part of this is going to be tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. And these people have, you know, reasonable complaints - no one told them they were going to have chronic pain, that they're going to have chronic swelling in their armpits, just the scar tissue itself causing pain. No one told them that they were going to have infertility along with this. And Tony, I want to stop and just say that you and I care about these people as individuals. We care about their hearts, we care about their souls, and we want to help them. There's something else going on; I guarantee it. I took care of probably thousands of young, adolescent girls going through different crises, one or another, and I'm just telling you, it's a very stressful time. They're doing it alone, and we're here to help them."

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