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Marco Rubio: “We were not enforcing our immigration laws, and now we are.”

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

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Interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio on State Department Reorganization and U.S. Foreign Policy

Published | Video Starts at 13:14

You have to have laws, and laws have to be enforced. If you don't enforce your laws, then your laws become meaningless. And that's what's happened in this country over the last 20 years. We were not enforcing our immigration laws, and now we are. Obviously, they're going to prioritize the most dangerous people, dangerous criminals. If you look at the manifest of these flights of people that are being deported, these are some of the most vile human beings imaginable that we're getting out of our country. (13:14–13:18)

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Asserts that the U.S. was not enforcing immigration laws but is now doing so.

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