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Jay Furman: “20 million is my number [of undocumented immigrants in the…”

Featuring: Jay Furman, Republican | Former Candidate, U.S. House Texas, District 28

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Jay Furman's Campaign for Texas Congressional District 28: Border Security and Political Reform

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High, high walls, embedded glass at the top, armed security if you, you know, something to protect like your family. And so here we think we can call somebody. They'll be there. There's so many people here, Paul. You know, 20 million is my number [of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.]. I mean, because we don't know. And it's somewhere between 10 and 20 million and maybe even north of that, what, whatever it is that's like the size of our military in the next 10 added to it in troop strength. (50:35–50:37)

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