Henry Cuellar: “The reason the numbers have gone down from 10 or 12,000 to…”

“I mean, President Obama did with Secretary Jeh Johnson. The other thing that he needs to do more, which he's done a good job, but he needs to push Mexico more. The reason the numbers have gone down from 10 or 12,000 to almost half... because we got Mexico to do its job at the southern border. The more they do that, the less people. So he's got to focus on this executive order working with Mexico because those numbers will drop the numbers at the border.” (03:20–03:30)

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