His failure to secure the southern border in Texas and in New Mexico and California and Arizona invited a drug trafficking crisis that is continuing to have downstream effects in our country. Even today. Hundreds of Thousands of Americans have lost their lives to the illegal drug trafficking coming across our southern border. And these failures, of course, do not happen in a vacuum. Our friends and enemies around the world are watching our friends to see whether they can rely on the … (13:52–14:02)
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Asserts that hundreds of thousands of Americans have died due to illegal drug trafficking across the southern border.
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