POTUS has a new Democratic nemesis: Beto O'Rourke — and he’s employing a favorite tactic of the president to make his own case for border security.
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00:00We know that walls do not save lives. Walls end lives.
00:07Walls save lives. Walls save tremendous numbers of lives.
00:30Do you know where it made a big difference? Right here in El Paso.
00:35In one of the safest cities in the United States of America.
00:40They said when that wall went up, it's a whole different ballgame.
00:44Safe, not because of walls, but in spite of walls.
00:49We want to stop drugs. We want to stop traffickers. We want to stop criminals from coming in.
00:55Walls save lives. Walls save tremendous numbers of lives.
01:01President describes Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals.
01:06We have the chance to tell him and the country immigrants commit crimes,
01:11including violent crimes, at a lower rate than do Americans who were born in this country.
01:17Meth, cocaine, fentanyl, so many others, they come through the southern border.
01:21El Paso has been the safest city in the United States of America,
01:26not in spite of the fact that we're a city of immigrants, but because we are a city of immigrants.
01:32If we had proper border security, including a very powerful wall,
01:37we wouldn't have to work so hard and it would be a lot safer.
01:41The U.S. cities of the U.S.-Mexico border are far safer
01:45than the U.S. cities deeper in the interior of the United States of America.
01:50We stand for America and we stand against walls.