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Henry Cuellar: “Smugglers make six to $8,000 per person.”

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

Congressman Henry Cuellar Addresses Border Crossings MSNBC.

Published June 10, 2021 | Video Starts at 00:26

What's going on? Certainly the incentives are there for the smugglers to keep trying to get people over here. They Smugglers 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 make over the years billions of dollars. (00:26–00:30)

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