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Henry Cuellar: “Last year I think we had about 1.7 million people that got…”

Featuring: Henry Cuellar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 28

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Henry Cuellar urges colleagues to visit border 'Haven't seen numbers like this'

Published | Video Starts at 01:33

And what you're seeing here is this busing of, of migrants to these blue states has finally got attention on something because this border is being ignored. Tell people how bad this is compared to anything you've seen before. You know, we, and Last year I think we had about 1.7 million people that got to the border. This year, once we get the final numbers, it'll be 2.3. So that's almost 4 million individuals. You add the getaways, 800, 900,000 the last couple of years, and you're talking about somewhere between 4 to 5 million individuals. (01:33–01:45)

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Asserts that 1.7 million people reached the border last year and 2.3 million this year.

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