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Clay Higgins: “By January 2024, cartels were earning 32 million per week…”

Featuring: Clay Higgins, Republican | U.S. House Louisiana, District 3

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'Catch And Release, Lose And Forget' Hearing Held By Oversight Committee Members Led By Clay Higgins

Published | Video Starts at 02:59

In 2021 alone, early in the Biden administration, cartels made as much as 13 billion in revenue from smuggling people into the United States from Mexico. This trend continued throughout Biden's presidency. By January 2024, cartels were earning 32 million per week trafficking migrants across just one stretch of the Texas border. was difficult to measure. And it remains difficult to measure just how much American treasure was sucked into this pipeline of trafficking children into our country by the cartels. (02:59–03:07)

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Asserts that cartels earned $32 million per week by January 2024 from trafficking migrants across a Texas border stretch.

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