Calling it a matter of national security, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is once again calling on President Joe Biden to secure the southern border.

“It is an open border essentially,” Capito said Thursday during her weekly media briefing. “It can’t be that. It’s dangerous. We need to look at our national security. Known terrorists have been apprehended there. That is frightening in and of itself.”

Capito said 269,000 migrants illegally crossed the border during September alone, which was a new record. “We keep saying this – the highest number ever,” she said. “And it keeps getting higher and higher.”

Capito said border security issues will be “front and center” for the U.S. Senate in the weeks ahead as it considers appropriation bills.

“There has to be something significant on the border,” Capito said in reference to upcoming funding bills.

During Thursday’s briefing she outlined what she will and won’t support in terms of border funding.

“I will not vote for something that only at the border provides more processing agents so people can come in quicker, get processed and come into the interior of the United States more,” Capito said. “I will not vote for something that throws money at the problem that needs to be deterred and curtailed.”

Capito said she won’t vote for a bill that simply provides more money for additional processing sites and tents, but will support legislation that provides for quicker and more efficient asylum claims.

“In other words let’s turn someone back quicker rather than waiting seven or eight years if their asylum claim is not legitimate,” Capito said. “Number two, the Remain in Mexico policy. That is the policy President Trump put in place that turned the numbers way down and that is saying to somebody who comes in that you can have your asylum claim heard, but you have to wait in Mexico. That is a deterrent.”

Capito said she would also support funding for additional barriers, or walls, that keep illegal migrants out.

“We see that at least barriers do prevent,” she said. “And where people are coming in, we don’t have significant barriers. It could be a wall or a virtual barrier. Anything we do at point of entry or pre-point of entry that will stop the flow – that is what I’m interested in.”

Capito said Biden can secure the border as president but is refusing to do so.

“He can do these things, many of them on his own, but he’s just chosen not to,” she said.