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Colin Allred: “Now we're at the lowest rate of border crossings in several…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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Colin Allred talks border, abortion, economy and how he plans to unseat Senator Cruz.

Published | Video Starts at 09:19

And what you've seen is when we had a change in policy at the federal level to change our asylum process, an executive order. Now we're at the lowest rate of border crossings in several years because of the change in policy at the federal level. That wasn't anything that was done at the state level, but we had to have that action at the federal level. That's what I was calling for and saying that we needed to have more urgency towards. (09:19–09:27)

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