James Lankford: I Would Not Support a Border Security Bill that Did Not Fund the Wall

EXCERPT:

BERMAN: "Well, there is agreement on the larger issue, $1.3 billion of agreement on the larger issue which you voted for in the last Congress. The president said he would not sign it and then the House did not vote on that. I guess my question is, would you support or could you support some agreement on border security funding border security that did not include funding for the border wall?"
LANKFORD: "No, I would not. And the reason why is because it needs to be a part of it. You can’t just say that we’re going to do with everything technology. In urban areas when you’ve got a large town on one side of the border and a large town on the other side of the border you need a physical pedestrian barrier between the two or someone can quickly cross the border. There’s not enough time to be able to respond. So, again, this is not a 2,000 mile long concrete wall, this is a physical barrier where it’s needed in those certain areas. And in other areas we can use technology. And so to say we’re going to do everything but a physical barrier ignores the urban areas, ignores the areas where the highest human trafficking actually happens."