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Eric Hovde: “We don't know of the numbers 15, 16, 20 million people that…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 02:39

Former President Trump has proposed what he has called the largest effort of mass deportations if he's elected first, broadly, is that, do you, do you support that? Yes. We have to get, look, We don't know of the numbers 15, 16, 20 million people that came into this country. We don't know where they came from, what their intentions. We need to start the deportation of anybody that's been convicted of a crime or breaks a crime here and we need to move through that process. (02:39–02:46)

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Asserts uncertainty about the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S., estimating between 15 to 20 million.

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