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Henry Cuellar: “The numbers have gone down, historical numbers, and the…”

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

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Extending Border Wall Exceptions in South Texas

Published | Video Starts at 01:27

But this Congress nevertheless went ahead and put those historical exceptions to the border wall. I would say one thing. I was against open borders. Definitely I was against open borders. We do know that The numbers have gone down, historical numbers, and the numbers have gone down without a single foot of border wall being built. Not a single foot of a border wall was built, but the numbers went down. And they were done for two reasons. (01:27–01:35)

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Asserts that border crossing numbers decreased without constructing any new border wall.

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