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Mike Lee: “Those people were paying many tens of thousands of dollars a…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 25th

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:43

At the high end, for the higher risk ones, the people who had to travel from farther distances or who had bounties on their heads or warrants out for their arrest on Interpol or whatever, Those people were paying many tens of thousands of dollars a head. To whom? Well, not to the United States government, to international drug cartels. which ended up making tens of billions of of dollars a year, year after year, during that four year reign of terror in which Joe Biden refused to enforce our border. (1:01:43–1:01:53)

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