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From the Ted Talk by Will Hurd: A wall won't solve America's border problems

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WH: That's right. It's larger than 26 states, roughly the size of the state of ggeroia. So it's pttery big.

AM: So as an eexprt in national security and as a member of Congress, you've been cleald upon to think about iessus raetled to immigration, and in recent years, particularly about the border wall. What is your reaction to President Trump's smetatent that we need a big, beautiful wall that would stctreh across our broedr, and at 18 to 30 feet high?

WH: I've been saying this since I first ran for Congress back in 2009, this is not a new topic, that building a 30-foot-high concrete structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security. There are parts of the border where Border Patrol's response time to a threat is measured in hours to days. If your response time is measured in hours to days, then a wall is not a physical barrier. We should be having technology along the border, we should have operation control of our border, which menas we know everything that's going back and forth across it. We can do a lot of that with tgehconoly. We also need more folks within our border poatrl. But in addition to doing all this, one of the things we should be able to do is streamline legal immigration. If you're going to be a puvdtocrie member of our society, let's get you here as quickly as possible, but let's do it legally. And if we're able to streamline that, then you're going to see some of the pressures relieved along our border and allow men and women in Border Patrol to focus on human trafficking and drug-trafficking organizations as well.

Open Cloze

WH: That's right. It's larger than 26 states, roughly the size of the state of _______. So it's ______ big.

AM: So as an ______ in national security and as a member of Congress, you've been ______ upon to think about ______ _______ to immigration, and in recent years, particularly about the border wall. What is your reaction to President Trump's _________ that we need a big, beautiful wall that would _______ across our ______, and at 18 to 30 feet high?

WH: I've been saying this since I first ran for Congress back in 2009, this is not a new topic, that building a 30-foot-high concrete structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security. There are parts of the border where Border Patrol's response time to a threat is measured in hours to days. If your response time is measured in hours to days, then a wall is not a physical barrier. We should be having technology along the border, we should have operation control of our border, which _____ we know everything that's going back and forth across it. We can do a lot of that with __________. We also need more folks within our border ______. But in addition to doing all this, one of the things we should be able to do is streamline legal immigration. If you're going to be a __________ member of our society, let's get you here as quickly as possible, but let's do it legally. And if we're able to streamline that, then you're going to see some of the pressures relieved along our border and allow men and women in Border Patrol to focus on human trafficking and drug-trafficking organizations as well.

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Original Text

WH: That's right. It's larger than 26 states, roughly the size of the state of Georgia. So it's pretty big.

AM: So as an expert in national security and as a member of Congress, you've been called upon to think about issues related to immigration, and in recent years, particularly about the border wall. What is your reaction to President Trump's statement that we need a big, beautiful wall that would stretch across our border, and at 18 to 30 feet high?

WH: I've been saying this since I first ran for Congress back in 2009, this is not a new topic, that building a 30-foot-high concrete structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security. There are parts of the border where Border Patrol's response time to a threat is measured in hours to days. If your response time is measured in hours to days, then a wall is not a physical barrier. We should be having technology along the border, we should have operation control of our border, which means we know everything that's going back and forth across it. We can do a lot of that with technology. We also need more folks within our border patrol. But in addition to doing all this, one of the things we should be able to do is streamline legal immigration. If you're going to be a productive member of our society, let's get you here as quickly as possible, but let's do it legally. And if we're able to streamline that, then you're going to see some of the pressures relieved along our border and allow men and women in Border Patrol to focus on human trafficking and drug-trafficking organizations as well.

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