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Elon Musk: “We allowed 20 million people to run roughshod illegally over…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Discussion on Trump's First 100 Days and Media Coverage with Emily Compagno

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

And we went from one in which bipartisan border policy was the consensus of both Democrats and Republicans to one in which We allowed 20 million people to run roughshod illegally over the countryside, causing crime, causing a stress in the welfare system. And again, that happened over the lifetime of the youngest member of the Cabinet. And what has happened in 100 days is that we started to reverse every single one of those negative trends. (00:45–00:55)

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Asserts that 20 million people have entered the U.S. illegally, causing crime and welfare stress.

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