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Henry Cuellar: “We're the largest port of entry. 18,000 trailers. You can…”

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

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Rep. Cuellar Questions CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott

Published | Video Starts at 06:34

But the more we can do that and we talk to your team, I would ask you to do that because as we expand the World Trade Bridge from eight lanes, commercial lanes, to 18 lanes in Columbia, from eight to 16, We're the largest port of entry. 18,000 trailers. You can put all the trucks from El Paso down to Brownsville. They're even match what they do in Laredo. We would ask you to just do this once in a generation checkpoint and we'll follow up. I don't want to go. (06:34–06:41)

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Asserts that Laredo is the largest port of entry, handling 18,000 trailers.

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