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Beto O'Rourke: “Illegal immigration is at its lowest point in American…”

Featuring: Beto O'Rourke, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 20:05

There is a new $230 million facility being built in my hometown of El Paso, Texas. It will be the largest ICE detention facility, bar none, in America. Now ask yourself this. Illegal immigration is at its lowest point in American history. The sweeps that we're seeing everywhere, churches, federal courthouses, schools, people's homes, the parking lots of Home Depots and Lowe's, everywhere, they're the greatest that we've ever witnessed, those of us who are alive here today. (20:05–20:11)

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Asserts that illegal immigration is at its lowest point in American history.

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