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Eric Hovde: “The only ones that are benefiting from our open border…”

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

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Just Facts - Addressing the Fentanyl Crisis - Hovde for U.S. Senate

Published | Video Starts at 01:16

My youngest daughter, who's 25, literally has known three people in the last year and a half that have died to fentanyl and opiates. This is a crisis that needs to come to an end. The only ones that are benefiting from our open border policy are the drug and human trafficking cartels. So this open border policy that has been pushed by President Biden and his allies like Senator Baldwin, it needs to stop. (01:16–01:25)

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