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Eric Hovde: “That border bill was an utter disaster. And once most every…”

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 15:13

Add a thousand agents and border guards and then a couple billion for detecting fentanyl coming into the country. I thought that was doing something. Would you have been against that? That border bill was an utter disaster. And once most every senator figured out what was in it, they rejected it. And the House completely rejected it. All it did was codify that you could bring in 4000 illegal immigrants a day. (15:13–15:23)

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