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Elissa Slotkin: “I want to close the border.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Debate Night in Michigan: US Senate candidates discuss the issues

Published | Video Starts at 50:39

And Mike Rogers and his allies came in and said, no, we'd rather use it as whole a political talking point in an election year rather than actually deal with our problems. I want to close the border. He wants to keep it open, apparently Congress. Thirty seconds. Yeah. So nobody was more bipartisan when I was chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. (50:39–50:40)

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Asserts her intention to close the border.

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