Elissa Slotkin: “It's poverty, it's violence back home.”

“Number four, we have to address the root causes of migration. Why are people risking their life to come to this country in the first place? It's poverty, it's violence back home. We've got to help those countries improve their situation so we don't have such a flood of people feeling desperate to come to the United States. That's in their interest and ours.” (03:10–03:14)

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