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Eric Hovde: “One sheriff on the Arizona border said in 2000, they…”

Featuring: Eric Hovde, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Wisconsin

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Eric Hovde interview on Western Wisconsin Journal

Published | Video Starts at 16:52

If you talk to any sheriff on the southern border, they will tell you the amount of fentanyl pouring over our border is at rates that they've never even seen. I think One sheriff on the Arizona border said in 2000, they confiscated 6 million fentanyl pills. By 2023, they confiscated 111 million fentanyl pills. And are we surprised that we're losing our young people to this? So, no, that border bill was frankly a joke and wasn't going to do anything significant to really close our border. (16:52–17:10)

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