Henry Cuellar: “Smugglers make over the years billions of dollars.”

“They make six to $8,000 per person. So as the report just said to them, it doesn't matter if it's drugs or people, they Smugglers make over the years billions of dollars. And we have to understand that if we don't take this incentives away and address both the push factors and the pull factors, we're going to keep talking about this year after year.” (00:20–00:27)

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