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Donald Trump: “Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Full Speech to Joint Session of Congress

Published | Video Starts at 49:36

But if we truly care about protecting Americans children, no step is more crucial than securing America's borders. Over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States states. Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world. Because of Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies, they are now strongly embedded in our country. (49:36–49:47)

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Asserts that many of the 21 million people entering the U.S. were criminals.

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