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John James: “That's 1.6 billion people [dollars] when I visited the Del…”

Featuring: John James, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 10

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Flashpoint: John James, Debbie Dingell talk partisan issues

Published | Video Starts at 08:27

And Joe Biden has done everything he could to ignore it. That's 9 million that's gotten over illegally. That's 110,000 people who've died of fentanyl overdoses. That's 1.6 billion people [dollars] when I visited the Del Rio sector, that we learned are going to the cartels each and every single year. And we just learned that over 500 of the over 500 people who are on the terror watch list who've crossed over into this country, 84% are crossing on the northern border. (08:27–08:32)

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Asserts that $1.6 billion goes to cartels annually from the Del Rio sector.

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