center nice to me with you in the studio is always you just got back from the

border and I want to get into this it's not really shocking but it's very

concerning now from a national security standpoint how bad is it gotten

compared to what it was even just last time you were there well it keeps getting

worse and worse so I was down on the border Thursday and Friday of last week

and so the Senate was in session I was in DC until Thursday afternoon and then

jumped on a plane and I flew down to McAllen Thursday night and I brought

along with me four other senators John Corden and he and I often host our

colleagues down at the southern border and we also had with us John Barrasso

and Mike Lee and Pete Brickett's and so the five of us came down we landed

first thing we did we went straight from the airport to the midnight

muster of the Border Patrol agents and there were about 50 Border Patrol

agents gathered the musters where they sit and and talk right before they go

out on duty and and we had a good discussion with the Border Patrol agents

really I just stood up and told them thank you more than anything I wanted

them to hear from me thank you thank you thank you and to tell them and I said

exactly this I said listen I travel all over Texas I travel all over the

country you need to know that the American people appreciate what you're doing

they're morale is low right now it's incredibly low I mean that they are

working for bosses who undermine them who undercut them who make their jobs

impossible to do all right I'll tell you something so we did each of us spoke to

them a few minutes and then we opened it up for Q&A and and we asked the Border

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