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Colin Allred: “That bill was not a serious attempt at border security.”

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 06:56

And so that provision, or that bill that was passed in the House by Republicans, obviously backed, you know, building more border wall. Is that why you oppose that? No, no. That bill was not a serious attempt at border security. And let's be very clear, border security is going to have to be bipartisan. And working on this in a bipartisan way, HR2 was a symbolic bill intended to just have. (06:56–07:00)

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