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Henry Cuellar: “The rest are single adults, and the single adults, they're…”

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

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Rep. Cuellar on Anderson Cooper 360

Published | Video Starts at 03:25

In January of this year, 8% of the encounters that we had, 8% were unaccompanied kids. Unaccompanied kids. When you look at the family units, maybe it's about 10%. The rest are single adults, and the single adults, they're being returned under Title 42. which is the 1944 law that Trump started using. Again, the high point says go back to May, May, May of 2019, where we had a crisis where 61% of the people coming across were family units. (03:25–03:34)

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Asserts that most migrants are single adults being returned under Title 42.

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