John Cornyn: “The Border Patrol tells me...there's push factors and…”

“And not providing these benefits to illegal aliens. You know, the Border Patrol tells me in my many visits down there and I've hosted many of my colleagues down at The Border Patrol tells me...there's push factors and there's pull factors to illegal immigration. The push factors are the normal ones you would expect, poverty, violence in your home country. But the pull factors are the incentives that are provided to people to come to our country illegally.” (19:46–20:00)

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