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Colin Allred: “The border bill that we had earlier this year...was $20…”

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 06:10

… it, that physical barriers have a role to play in border security in addition to technology, personnel, and policy changes. And what did Ted Cruz do when he took down The border bill that we had earlier this year...was $20 billion for technology to catch fentanyl, for 1,000 new Border Patrol agents, for policy changes to the asylum system. to make it so that more folks would be denied asylum at the initial stage, and then also making it easier for us to process them faster to get through this backlog that we have. (06:10–06:22)

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