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Jay Furman: “Puerto Laredo... that's being exploited and really not…”

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

Published | Video Starts at 08:23

Certainly the most historically people not now but drugs, money, guns, that sort of thing. We do have the, you know, the crown jewel of ports in the United States and that's the Puerto Laredo... that's being exploited and really not protected enough by the federal government. understanding how important that is to all of our, all of our diets, if you will. So that's kind of me in a nutshell. I'm just still here running at the problem. (08:23–08:33)

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Asserts that Puerto Laredo is inadequately protected by the federal government.

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