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Mike Rogers: “10 million persons coming across the border is because of a…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Michigan U.S. Senate debate between Mike Rogers & Elissa Slotkin

Published | Video Starts at 21:34

You need to take away the ability for people in other countries to fill out an app and then come across the country. What we're finding is that 10 million persons coming across the border is because of a wide open border. And unfortunately, my opponent supported all of it. So we have criminals coming across, we have fentanyl coming across, we have human trafficking at unprecedented numbers coming across that southern border. (21:34–21:41)

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Asserts that 10 million people have crossed the border due to a lack of border security.

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