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Several wives of Border Patrol agents have a bold message for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her opposition to the border wall.
In a letter to Pelosi, the group of wives also invited the California Democrat to visit the southern border to see the hard work done by the brave men and women of Customs and Border Protection to protect the country.
Jill Demanski, whose husband is a Border Patrol agent, said Pelosi visiting the border would offer a wake-up call that a border wall would keep everyone much safer.
We, the wives of the [Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol], would like to cordially invite you to come visit McAllen, Texas, as President Trump did. We would like to show you around! You don’t need to bring any security detail. Our husbands and significant others are actually very good at their jobs, thank goodness. […] We’d also appreciate if you’d stop pretending that you care about federal workers. If you did, you would care for their safety, not just their paychecks. We can hold out a while longer if it means our husbands and communities are safer.
During an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Demanski and fellow Border Patrol wife Renea Perez spoke about how a physical barrier on the border between the United States and Mexico would keep their husbands much safer.
“I don’t think it’s fair that they’re asking one or two agents to handle groups of hundreds of people crossing over at one time,” Demanski said. “[…] We don’t think it shows that they are worried about our agents’ safety.”
Demanski noted that “it is not President Trump that is necessarily asking for the wall. Border Patrol and our agents and experts here have been asking for it for years.”
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The message from the Border Patrol wives comes after President Trump signed a measure that would keep the government open until Feb. 15 so that Republicans and Democrats can hopefully reach a deal on funding for the wall.
As part of the deal, the roughly 800,000 federal government employees were paid both of the checks they missed during the shutdown.
The deal does not include any upfront money for the border wall, but the president said he will declare a national emergency if Democrats do not agree to a deal in three weeks.
“Walls should not be controversial,” Trump said, adding that the steel barrier will have cutting-edge technology, monitors, and sensors to “stop illicit flows of drugs and illegal immigrants” into the country.
The president also called for hiring more Border Patrol agents, getting more resources at ports of entry to ensure drugs are not being smuggled into the nation, and adding additional federal immigration judges to speed up court cases.
That gives Trump and Democrats three weeks to reach a compromise on allocating at least $5 billion in wall funding — or Trump, as he said, will declare a national emergency.
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