Henry Cuellar: “You add the getaways, 800, 900,000 the last couple of years…”

“You know, we, and last year I think we had about 1.7 people, million people that went to the got to the border. This year, once we get the final numbers, it'll be 2.3. So that's almost 4 million individuals. You add the getaways, 800, 900,000 the last couple of years, and you're talking about somewhere between 4 to 5 million individuals. We haven't seen numbers like this. And this is, I'm right here about two feet away from the river.” (01:47–01:57)

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