Here is a link that indicates some 60 Democrats support building the "wall." We shall see. I suspect Trump is going to go with the Kushner Dreamer sell out, avoid a government shutdown again, and get some token "border security funding," as a sop to sell it to the deplorables who will realize he just sold us down the immigration river. The data below is from Steve Scalise web page, and yeah he was the one who got shot by the Democrat crazy at the baseball game.
https://www.republicanwhip.gov/news...border-security-compromise-will-they-deliver/
60+ Democrats Advocated for Border Security Compromise. Will They Deliver?
Over the past weeks dozens of Democrats —including their own House Majority Leader— claimed that a physical barrier should be part of the solution to address the border crisis and should be negotiated on once the government reopened. With President Trump reopening the government in good faith, will the 60+ Democrats quoted below follow through on their promises and demand physical barriers be included as part of a border security solution? Or will they allow Speaker Pelosi to give in to the open borders faction of her party?
Physical barriers are bipartisan, common sense, and supported by experts as a means to secure our border. They must be part of our approach to address the crisis of crime, drugs, and human trafficking at our southern border.
Support for Physical Barriers
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), House Armed Services Committee Chairman: “The wall is not in itself a bad idea,” (ABC News)
Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D-NY): “Some element of a physical barrier, better technology, more border agents are all things I support.” (WAER)
Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT): “I don’t think a border wall is immoral . . . There are places where it probably makes sense.” (KUTV)
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee: “I would not rule out a wall in certain instances” (ABC)
Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL), DCCC Chair: ““If we have a partial wall, if we have fencing, if we have technology used to keep our borders safe, all of that is fine …” (Washington Times)
Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN), House Agriculture Committee Chairman: “Give Trump the money… I’d give him the whole thing…and put strings on it so you make sure he puts the wall where it needs to be. Why are we fighting over this? We’re going to build that wall anyway, at some time.” (KFGO)
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI): “You would be surprised at the amount of money people are willing to put into border security and it would contain many things. … If there are places that some kind of barrier should be part of it, then that’s part of it.” (1/24/2019)
Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO): “There are a lot of ways to accomplish the border security – through drones, through barriers, through a whole variety of things,” (Denver7)
Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA): “He’s not talking about a wall from sea to shining sea. . . That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about physical barriers as recommended by experts.” (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI): “[A]m I willing to talk about more fencing and more drones and technology and radar and border agents? Absolutely.” (New York Times)
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA): “Increase Border Patrol agents. Increase enforcement of overstay of visas. Increase use of technology and yes fencing where there are vulnerabilities.” (CNS News)
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “There are areas along the border where there are currently fences that are put up or barriers that are put up that need to be enhanced,” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ): “We are a nation of the rule of law, and we do need some type of barriers. . . In some places it may be electric, in some places it may be drone, in some it may be an actual wall. But we do need to ensure our security.” (Press of Atlantic City)
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), House Majority Whip: [Whip Clyburn] said there could be “secondary barriers” where necessary, including rebuilding existing physical barriers. (Fortune)
Rep. Jim Costa (D-CA): “I have continually voted to improve border security, including authorizing construction of physical barriers where appropriate.” (The Fresno Bee)
Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA): “And there are numerous things that need to be done to enhance border security. Certainly, fences and walls are a piece of it …” (CNN, 12/13/2018)
Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD): “Certain physical barriers can make sense along the border, and a lot of places you already have that,” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA): “I think there are parts of the border that would benefit from repairing fencing and other barricades that already exist there,” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA): “We know that there’s already fencing and other physical barriers across the border in many different places, but there are gaps, and we need to find ways of filling those gaps, repairing the fencing…. For many of us there’s not really doubt that some kind of physical barrier is necessary.” (Fox News)
Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK): “We need to get the government back open again and then let’s have a broader conversation that puts everything on the table in terms of border security. . . That includes smart technology, that includes perhaps in some places a physical barrier.” (Fox 25 – KOKH)
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL): said he’s willing to cave on the wall if it means sparing hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients. “If that’s their ransom call, I say pay it,” (The New York Daily News)
Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT): [Welch] said it’s important to respond to the immigration crisis in the southwestern U.S., but that proper security comes in different forms, including a physical barrier in some areas, but also “virtual walls” and patrols. (The Vermont Digger)
Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA): “Or, it might be, a physical barrier, such as a levee or fence if that makes sense in some places.” (Breitbart)
Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader: “Physical barriers are part of the solution,” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Rep. Thomas Suozzi (D-NY): “I would support some physical structures on the border,” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Rep. Tom O’Halleran (D-AZ): When asked if the congressman would support a bill that reopened the government even if it provided funding for a wall, O’Halleran simply said he has supported funding for sections of a border wall in the past. (Arizona Daily Sun)
Sen. Angus King (I-ME): “Everybody is for border security. The question is, let’s do it in a rational, economic, sensible way. There are places where wall makes sense …” (CNN)
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD): “Certainly you need barriers and we support barriers,” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE): “I personally don’t think that a border wall is, in and of itself, immoral,” (Washington Examiner)
Sen. Dick Durban (D-IL): “I can tell you we have had fencing in the past and I’m sure we will in the future.” (CNS News)
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR): “Some fencing has uses. Some barriers are useful.” (The Washington Free Beacon)
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV): “I voted to fund President Trump’s wall. Check the vote.” (The Hill)
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA): “I know we’re going to have to add additional border security…. We’ve got about 700 miles of existing fencing. Where folks say we need additional barrier protections, I’m all for it.” (Fox News’ “Your World w/ Neil Cavuto,” 1/23/2019)
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE): “I am a huge advocate of border security. I think fencing makes sense in a lot of places. We have hundreds of miles of fencing, and in a lot of places, fences alongside roads make sense.” (The Congressional Record)
Support for Negotiations on Strong Border Security
Rep. Abby Finkenauer (D-IA): “We’ve got to open up the government. We’ve got to have serious conversations about border security,” (KWWL)
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA): “I’m always willing to have a conversation about strengthening our national security in a long-term, comprehensive, and cost-effective manner.” (
