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Byron Donalds: “The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security again…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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Published | Video Starts at 03:56

… people come into our country illegally, letting the drug cartels make billions of dollars and trafficking people into our country. That was brought to us by the Democrat Party. And The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security again threw our borders wide open to the drug cartels and the coyotes. These are the priorities of the Democrats, I would say going into the midterm elections. The American people need to think long and hard and remember what this country looked like three years ago when you had full Democrat control. (03:56–04:04)

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Claims DHS shutdown opened borders to drug cartels and human traffickers.

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