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Mike Garcia: “302,000 encounters [at the border] in December. That's…”

Featuring: Mike Garcia, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 27

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Mike Garcia on the crisis at the southern border

Published | Video Starts at 00:56

We're going to have people now leaving these nations to move north. But you saw that number, 302,000 encounters. These are people that we actually caught 302,000 encounters [at the border] in December. That's 10,000 people a day. And 85% of the people right now who are coming to our southern border are actually getting through the southern border. (00:56–01:05)

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Asserts that there were 302,000 migrant encounters at the U.S. border in December, averaging 10,000 per day.

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