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Mike Rogers: “They're taking water out of the Rio Grande and everybody's…”

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

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Mike Rogers roundtable with Michigan farmers in Hudsonville

Published | Video Starts at 22:37

But that seems surprising to me because it happened so fast, because they were, you know, and that's what some of the water issue, I guess, they're getting into down there about the Rio Grande. They're taking water out of the Rio Grande and everybody's complaining, but it's for those, their onion crops and apparently other crops down there as well. And bringing them across at just a fraction of the price, you can't compete. Seems to me we better find a solution to this unless we want to buy all our food from other countries. (22:37–22:46)

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Asserts that water is being taken out of the Rio Grande for onion and other crops, causing complaints.

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