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Donald Trump: “A year ago. We had hundreds of thousands of people come in…”

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Donald Trump and President Marcos Discuss US-Philippines Relations and Trade

Published | Video Starts at 33:32

Zero. Which is pretty amazing. I'm not even sure I can believe that. But liberals are the ones that do that calculation, so. But we had no people come in. A year ago. We had hundreds of thousands of people come in. Hundreds of thousands of people. And they flowed in. And if it wasn't for the election, it would have been. Millions of people came in last year. So millions of people. (33:32–33:35)

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Asserts that hundreds of thousands of people entered the U.S. illegally a year ago.

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