“If they spent some time on that, they could solve the loophole problem in an hour, they could solve the asylum problem in an hour, and we'd have no problem whatsoever at the border. They don't want to do it. They want things to look bad, they want open borders.”
— Speech, 06/26/2019
Trump claims it would be easy to quickly make a deal -- 45 minutes, or even as little as 15 minutes. But there is relatively little support in Congress for many of his anti-immigration proposals. When the Senate voted in 2018 on different options, Trump's plan received the fewest number of votes, including many Republican "nay" votes.