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Daniel Crenshaw: “We were doing [stopping illegal immigration] right for a…”

Featuring: Daniel Crenshaw, Republican | U.S. House Texas, 2nd Congressional District

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Discussion with Congressman Daniel Crenshaw on GOP Dynamics and Policy Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 30:38

Let's talk about immigration, because you mentioned that you feel strongly about stopping illegal immigration at the border. I guess the first question I have is, how do you do that? Well, We were doing [stopping illegal immigration] right for a couple years in Trump's presidency. and the way he did it was disincentivizing the abuse of our asylum process fundamentally. So he disincentivized that by saying, okay, look, you're claiming asylum, fine, but you got to go way back in Mexico City, all right? (30:38–30:43)

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Asserts that illegal immigration was effectively managed during part of Trump's presidency.

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