This interview features Congressman Will Hurd in conversation with criminal justice reformer Anne Milgram.

Recorded live at Ted Salon, Border Stories, 2019.

Congressman Hurd is a remote speaker calling into the TED World Theater.

Congressman, I was about to introduce you and say a little more.

Hi, how you doing?

Thank you so much for joining us tonight.

We're so lucky to have you here with us.

And I've already explained that you're actually in Washington because you're working.

And I was about to tell folks that you represent the 23rd District of Texas.

But maybe you could tell us a little bit about your district and describe it for us. Sure. My district in Southwest Texas is 29 counties,

two time zones, 820 miles of border from Eagle Pass Techhurts all the way to El Paso.

It takes 10 and a half hours to drive across my district at 80 miles an hour, which is the

speed limit in most of the district.

And I found out a couple weekends ago, it's not the speed limit in all the district.

It's a 71% Latino district, and it's a district that I've been representing

for now my third term in Congress.

And when you think about the issue of the border, I have more border than any other member

of Congress.

I spent nine and a half years as an undercover officer in the CIA chasing bad

people all across the country. So when it comes to securing our border, it's something I know a little

bit about. One of the things I learned recently, which I hadn't known before, is that your district

is actually the size, I think, of the state of Georgia?

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