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Greg Abbott: “In any one sector in the state of Texas, we have more than…”

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They're up in arms about a few thousand people coming into their communities over the past few months. Listen, In any one sector in the state of Texas, we have more than 5,000 people come across that sector every single day. And so, listen, we're full in the state of Texas. Our communities are overrun. And I started busing people to Washington, D.C. when local officials could not handle the number of people that had come across our border. (03:09–03:17)

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Asserts that over 5,000 people cross a single sector of the Texas border daily.

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