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Kari Lake: “Yours on the border have empowered the cartels.”

Featuring: Kari Lake, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Arizona

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Ruben Gallego, Kari Lake face off in Arizona Senate debate

Published | Video Starts at 21:28

And what you're doing to families right now, Reuben, is you're making that be their reality. You're making it so moms and dads out there are losing people because of drugs. Yours on the border have empowered the cartels. You know, I've taken this so seriously that, you know, I was actually in support of a bill that would have brought more technology to the border, that would have actually checked all the scanners. (21:28–21:32)

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Asserts that border policies have empowered cartels.

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