… eyes peeled for a Somali man believed to be associated with a group connected with Al Qaeda coming across the U. S. Mexico border. And that should remind us that Last year alone 45,000 OTMs individuals other than Mexican citizens use the Mexico's border, its poorest border, to come into the United States. People from Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, even places like I said Iran state sponsor international terrorism. So this is a national security imperative and unfortunately too many people here in Washington just don't seem to get it. (01:03–01:14)
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Asserts that 45,000 individuals other than Mexican citizens crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last year.
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