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Kirsten Engel: “Arizona has had a bigger burden being a border state.”

Featuring: Kirsten Engel, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Arizona, District 6

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Published | Video Starts at 08:03

I don't think the Republicans have done a good job on this. I don't think particularly the Democratic administrations have done a great job with this. And Arizona has had a bigger burden being a border state. So we do need to secure our border. There's real issues of drug trafficking and human trafficking, a lot of those drugs actually going through our ports of entry, which we should strengthen. (08:03–08:09)

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Asserts that Arizona faces a greater burden due to its status as a border state.

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