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Abraham Hamadeh: “Right now, it's our wide open border that's been, you know…”

Featuring: Abraham Hamadeh, Republican | U.S. House Arizona, District 8

Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona

Published November 1, 2022 | Video Starts at 00:08

What do you think the biggest issue facing Arizona is, and what would you do as Attorney General to help solve that issue? Right now, it's our wide open border that's been, you know, completely opened by the Biden administration. Just two years ago, we had record numbers of the least amount of border crossers in history. It was about 20 to 30,000amonth. Now it's about 250,000. (00:08–00:15)

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Asserts that the Biden administration has completely opened the border.

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“Just two years ago, we had record numbers of the least amount of border crossers in history. It was about 20 to 30,000 a month.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 00:14-00:24
“Now it's about 250,000.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 00:23-00:26
“The Biden administration has advertised the world that they're not going to be enforcing their laws.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 00:28-00:33
“I'm going to label the drug cartels as terrorist organizations, working with the legislature to do that.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 00:37-00:44
“With that designation, there's actually enhanced sentencing on them.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 00:43-00:47
“Under current Arizona law, we have that ability to classify terrorist organizations, but we just defer to the federal government on what…”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 00:52-01:01
“The federal government has been politicized, especially the State Department.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 01:01-01:05
“The Yemen Houthi rebels who are firing missiles at us, they were delisted by the Biden administration as terrorist organizations.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 01:08-01:16
“Arizona knows what the threat is, and the threat is the cartels who are the narco terrorists at our southern border.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 01:21-01:28
“We have to make sure that the invasion declaration is going to be also enforced as well.”
Abe Hamadeh on Border Security in Arizona | Uploaded November 1, 2022 | 01:30-01:36