The wall along the southern border with Mexico is just one of many necessary measures to curb illegal immigration into the United States, Iowa Rep. Steve King said Monday.
Speaking on CNN, King acknowledged the amount of illegal entry attempts has dropped during the past decade, but that doesn’t make the wall any less necessary. And it’s only one part of the equation.
“The wall is the central infrastructural component that we need to build and then the other things are things we need to add,” King said.
“We need cameras, we need night vision equipment out there, we need sensors.”
King is one of the biggest proponents of President Trump’s plan for a wall along the border with Mexico, even going so far as to build a mock-up of the wall as a model in his office.
He said drug smuggling into the United States is a larger problem than illegal immigration. He said he’s been to the border and seen people with backpacks full of drugs trying to get into the U.S.
Now that Trump’s in office, it’s time to get cracking on putting an end to those incursions, King said.
“If we don’t build a wall, we’re going to end up having the mess that we have today,” he said.
