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Pete Hegseth: “We've locked that border down. 100% control of the southwest…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 02:42

And so the Department of War went straight to the southwest border. We still have 10,000 troops there. We have national defense areas. We're standing alongside the border patrol, and We've locked that border down. 100% control of the southwest border. We stopped the invasion, and then we're proud to be going on the offense, counter cartel operations. And it's not counter cartel, as was mentioned. These are designated terrorist organizations, foreign terrorist organizations. (02:42–02:47)

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Asserts that the southwest border is under complete control.

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