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Henry Cuellar: “We got Mexico and Central American countries to do what they…”

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 01:53

One, something that some of us have been advocating for many years, you got to have repercussions at the border. If somebody comes in, they're not supposed to be here, they should be returned back. And the second thing was We got Mexico and Central American countries to do what they should have been done for many years, and that is hold people that are coming to the US from coming in. That brought down the historical numbers that we see now without a single foot of border wall. And there's other ways that we can also protect this without having violet fencing in those areas. (01:53–02:05)

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Asserts that Mexico and Central American countries are now preventing people from entering the US.

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