Border walls should go the way of powdered wigs and 78’s, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
As she was declaring to reporters that there would be no funding for a border wall, Pelosi likened a border fence to a land line telephone.
“By the way, when some of these fences were born— ha, born— were built,” she said, “the technology was not what it is today.
“So you have to look at technology in a new form. Just as we say that we all just get land lines in our homes, or should we have smart phones. Well what should we be doing on the border like a land line versus technology that our personnel on the border should have,” Pelosi said.
Yesterday, Pelosi told a group of christian college administrators that there would be “sizeable funding” for entitlements for illegal aliens, but no funding for a border wall.
“We’re hoping that we can find common ground as soon as possible so that we can not only meet our responsibility to protect our border, to treat people coming here with dignity and respect but also to keep government open. Some of the things that we have in there I think will be very acceptable, goes on both sides of the ledger,” she said.
“We both care, all of us on either side of the wall question — but all care about treating the people who come, so there will be sizable funding for food, clothing, medical care for immigrants coming across the border so we don’t have people dying in our custody – children,” Pelosi added.
“There’ll be sizable funding for additional judges to more quickly adjudicate these cases so that it doesn’t become, well, they’re here such a long time. Well, it’s because we have such a backlog too, so we’ll have that,” the House Speaker said.
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