And it's a problem that I didn't realize was so large at the time until we saw it firsthand. But in the area we were in, The cartels were making more money smuggling humans than they were smuggling in drugs [at the southern border]. So the problem is much larger than I think a lot of people realized. But it goes back to if there's a problem that our country is facing and we don't implement a common sense solution, I don't understand what the barrier is to that. (05:21–05:28)
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