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Beth Van Duyne: “They're being put in meat packing plants working, you know…”

Featuring: Beth Van Duyne, Republican | U.S. House, Texas, District 24

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A Conversation with Rep. Beth Van Duyne TX 24 (EP 46).

Published | Video Starts at 30:19

But we're also seeing a brand new time of narco slavery in our country where we are having people who are brought, children included, who are being brought on farms, illegal marijuana farms worked to death, They're being put in meat packing plants working, you know, the graveyard shift at the tender age of 14. This is happening under Biden's watch. And Obrador is blaming the U.S. he's saying that we have drug traffickers here, that it's not in Mexico, that he's not going to … (30:19–30:27)

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Asserts that children as young as 14 are working night shifts in meat packing plants.

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