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John Cornyn: “According to one report, over $19 billion is lost to…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Everything from wire fraud, manufacturing and selling counterfeit documents, fraudulently obtaining mass numbers of H2B visas, and much more. None of these crimes are victimless. Consider the damage done to countless US Citizens whose identities are stolen. According to one report, over $19 billion is lost to identity theft annually. and many of the individuals who've been defrauded have to spend their own hard earned money and countless hours and headaches to fix a mess that came about through no fault of their own. (08:34–08:41)

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