As the President noted at the border, we've got 10,000 troops down there who've been operating in defense cooperation areas, defense zones where there's 00 illegal crossings because of troops on strikers scanning the border. We've been protecting other people's borders for 20 years. It's about time we protect our own. And we're working with ICE and CBP in Los Angeles. We did the same thing working with the California National Guard, working with ICE officers. (00:49–00:54)
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Asserts that the U.S. military has been protecting foreign borders for 20 years and should focus on its own.
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