… responsive to our Border Patrol agents who say they need more support, take them seriously, fund them adequately. We've got to fight back. Because to many of us right now, It feels like it is the cartels who are running and benefiting from the chaos at the southern border. And I argue that the fuller view of humanitarianism is listening to, you know, the families in Mexico, the businesses in Mexico who are being extorted by cartels and ending that authority and exercising our own authority to gain operational control at the border. (08:16–08:23)
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Asserts that cartels are exploiting the situation at the southern border.
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