GOP Candidate Mark Harris: 'We Send Our Military All Over the World,' It Should Protect Our Borders

Alex Hall | November 1, 2018
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During an interview with Breitbart News Tonight Mark Harris, the GOP nominee for North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, criticized Democrats for refusing to compromise with President Trump on immigration.

...the DACA folks...in order for them to move towards a legal status that, number one, we would build a border wall; number two, we would end chain migration; number three, we would put an end to the visa lottery; and number four, that we would have serious enforcement of E-Verify, putting the pressure back on companies and their hiring practices...I felt like that was an incredible deal and compromise that [Trump] put out there on the table, and the Democrats were unwilling to even work with him on that and it became a non-starter for them.

He also mentioned that he finds President Trump's military enforcement of the border to be a critical issue, arguing that America's military would have misplaced priorities if it is fighting wars for other countries' interests abroad but failed to protect the sovereignty of their own homeland. 

...I support having our military go to the border. We send our military all over the world to countries to protect them, to work along their borders, and if our military can’t be sent to protect our border, you have to wonder why would we have them? So I think [Trump] is making the right stand and the right statement, and we just cannot allow this caravan to progress into our border.

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