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Henry Cuellar: “Legal visa holders from Mexico that spend billions of…”

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

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Congressman Henry Cuellar Addresses Border Crossings MSNBC.

Published | Video Starts at 05:36

It's Just something that we here at the border are just frustrated, and I emphasize frustrated by what's happening. We're letting undocumented people coming in, but the Legal visa holders from Mexico that spend billions of dollars, they're not even coming in. There's something wrong with that contradiction that we see at the border. So, so Congressman Claire, I want to underline something you just said because we had you on the show several months ago and you, you said the same thing then. (05:36–05:42)

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Asserts that legal visa holders from Mexico, who contribute billions economically, are not entering the U.S.

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