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Derrick Van Orden: “We had 158,000 ish people enter the country illegally last…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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EP20 with Navy Seal and Congressional Candidate Derrick Van Orden

Published | Video Starts at 13:56

That's over a quarter of the Earth's population worth of fentanyl was seized coming across the border since Biden has been in office. It's unsustainable if you think about conceptually how many people that is. We had 158,000 ish people enter the country illegally last year, month. It's unsustainable. And if you think about the misery that with human smuggling for sex trafficking, the drug smuggling that's coming across the border right now, it's unconscionable that we would allow this to take place. (13:56–14:03)

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Asserts that approximately 158,000 people entered the country illegally in a month last year.

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