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Marco Rubio: “Eight million people have left Venezuela since 2014.”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 30:34

Not to mention the fact that they unleashed trained Aragua gangs on the United States. They've unleashed, you know, a mass migration event, perhaps the largest in history. Eight million people have left Venezuela since 2014. So also destabilizing all the countries in the region who've had to assume people that are fleeing this illegitimate regime. So. But nobody disputed the drug links. (30:34–30:38)

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