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Ben Ray Luján: “We could achieve 100% screening inbound and outbound.”

Featuring: Ben Ray Luján, Democratic | U.S. Senate New Mexico

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Now, if they move that from 1.1 billion to just $10 billion, worked with our national labs, worked with the intelligence community, developed screening that would help us in America, I believe that We could achieve 100% screening inbound and outbound. And there's a few pilot projects now that are proving to be positive for large cargo containers. But if I'm not mistaken, under Biden, Trump won. (1:11:18–1:11:21)

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Asserts that with increased funding and technology, 100% screening of inbound and outbound cargo is achievable.

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