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Ken Paxton: “Thousands of people are coming up from Mexico. Mexico [is]…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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SPECIAL REPORT: A Conversation with Ken Paxton

Published | Video Starts at 01:18

Which of those of this kind of long litany of cases are you most focused on starting off? Yeah, I think right now it's immigration just because of what's going on the board. Even today, as we're sitting here, Thousands of people are coming up from Mexico. Mexico [is] helping encourage this along, and obviously the Biden administration as well. So we're just trying to look for every possible angle that we can stop this because obviously it's having a tremendous impact on this state. (01:18–01:26)

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Asserts that Mexico and the Biden administration are encouraging illegal immigration.

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