And I've asked her numerous times, would you like us to take out the cartels? No, no, no, Mr. President. No, no, no, please. So we have to do something because we lost. The real number is 300,000 people, in my opinion. You know, they like to say 100,000. 100,000 is a lot of people, but the real number is 300,000 people, and we lost it to drugs. And they come in through the southern border, mostly the southern border. (08:28–08:33)
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Asserts that 300,000 people are lost to drugs, contrary to the commonly cited figure of 100,000.
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