Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been criticized by some foreign nationals, namely those residing south of the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as by the pro-illegal immigration lobby, for his push to build a border wall that will span along the U.S. southern border with Ole Mejico.

During a recent interview we conducted with Senator Marco Rubio (R) in his Miami office, Rubio defended Trump’s call to build a “safer and stronger border” wall or fence to defend the sovereignty of the United States, saying that building walls is something the U.S. and other countries  do on a regular basis.

“We build walls all over the world and other countries build walls all over the world. We secure our military installations through walls.”- Senator Marco Rubio

Rubio then stated the obvious, in that “the entire border can’t be walled because there are segments we don’t have to wall it because they’re so mountainous and dangerous nobody crosses through there,” adding that building a wall wouldn’t be enough to fix the broken immigration problem.

Rubio pointed out that “part of the solution” of fixing the immigration problem in the U.S. is to address that 40 percent of illegal immigrants are here on overstayed visas.

As far as the immigration problem goes in regards to the wave of displaced refugees being imported in from Syria, Rubio says that it is hard to “vet” these individuals because there is “no functional government you can call” for assistance with identification, and that religion has nothing to do with keeping these people out of the U.S.

“You can’t let them in if you don’t know who they are.”- Senator Marco Rubio

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