1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:00,560 Very good. 2 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,720 And your last question. 3 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:06,960 Should state funds be used for border management? 4 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:07,680 Okay. 5 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,560 I expected this to come up. 6 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:12,320 It's Texas, right? 7 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:16,160 But um, so far that's being done right now through 8 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,000 Operation Lone Star. 9 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,720 If you look at the history upon where that funding 10 00:00:20,720 --> 00:00:23,760 came from, funding for Operation Lone Star came right around 11 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,040 the same time we severely started splashing um money for 12 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,680 our uh our mental uh mental health care and for 13 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,280 our our public schools. 14 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,320 So it's it's one of those things where I understand 15 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,360 the concern, but you have to understand that this is 16 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,120 a congressional issue. 17 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,040 I understand that, like I said earlier, we are the 18 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,840 eighth largest economy in the world, we are, but that 19 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:46,000 still does not compare to the rest of the entirety 20 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:47,760 of the United States of America. 21 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,520 We do have a border problem. 22 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:51,440 My mother works for CBB. 23 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,160 I I I do see the issue, but the way 24 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:57,280 we fix this is having our congressional members fund our 25 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:58,320 border patrol. 26 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,400 That did not happen recently, by the way. 27 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:04,800 Donald Trump came out and he asked a bipartisan bill 28 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,080 that would have funded our CDP, our customs and border 29 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:08,960 patrol. 30 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:11,520 These politicians in Congress are playing games. 31 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:14,400 The Republicans at the congressional level, they don't want to 32 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,080 actually fix these problems. 33 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,560 They just want something to complain about because that's what 34 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:19,920 gets them votes. 35 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,560 So if you really want to fix our border crisis, 36 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,960 you better be talking to your your congressmen. 37 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:25,600 All right. 38 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,240 They're the ones who have more money than tax systems, 39 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,400 and they're all the ones together who really need to 40 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,720 come together to fix this problem. 41 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,080 Aside from that, I don't want to demonize anyone of 42 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:40,560 Hispanic uh resemblance or say that we're being invaded. 43 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,120 I strongly stand against that kind of rhetoric. 44 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,640 Especially the my my extended family are Hispanics. 45 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,120 My sister-in-law, for example, is from Honduras. 46 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:51,360 Now she came here, she has a couple of kids 47 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:51,560 here. 48 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,280 She came here through the natural process. 49 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,120 But I know the more and more that we talk 50 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,920 about saying that all these people who don't look like 51 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,240 me are invading this area, that hurts people like my 52 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,200 sister-in-law. 53 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:03,320 And that's not fair to them. 54 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,480 So I believe that we should pay attention to the 55 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:06,120 border issue 56 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,840 I also believe we should be humane about it. 57 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,800 Thank you.