With open borders and the proliferation of the Mexican cartels and their illic illicit cattle trafficking, the new World screw worm began to make its way north, hitting Mexico in 2023 and 2024. All models showed that [the New World screw worm] would be here by last summer. With the extremely aggressive action, with the support of this committee and an entire across government effort, we began to push back very significantly starting February of last year. (07:33–07:38)
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Asserts that models predicted the New World screw worm would arrive by last summer.
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