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Mike Garcia: “85% of the people right now who are coming to our southern…”

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 01:05

But you saw that number, 302,000 encounters. These are people that we actually caught in the month of 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. 70% of those people are single males between the age of 18 and 45, and they're all about basically getting released across all 50 states right now. (01:05–01:12)

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