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Mike Garcia: “In total, it's about 5 million people who have come across…”

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 01:23

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. So In total, it's about 5 million people who have come across our border or who have gotten away from Border Patrol agents in the last three years. And that's bigger than the population of half of the states in our country, to put this in perspective. So this is a real national security crisis that we're experiencing right now. (01:23–01:32)

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