Greg Abbott: “Military were sent to the border, blocking people from…”

“I would say overnight. But on the first hour of his tenure as president, we saw the change where there were Military were sent to the border, blocking people from crossing illegally on the first hour of Trump's tenure. people who crossed on 19 January dropped dramatically. On 20 January, they have continued to drop. And every single day, President Trump working with Tom Homan, they've been deporting people to the countries they came from.” (00:26–00:38)

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