Eli Crane: “Now you have 15 million people in the country. That's a…”

“We warned about it in the last Congress. Why the southern border was wide open and many of our visa programs were being completely exploited. Now you have 15 million people in the country. That's a figure they won't even argue with. And now the American people elected President Trump and this administration to go and solve the problem. And now, so they've turned on ice, whose job is to get the criminals and these people out of the country.” (00:31–00:36)

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