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Pete Sessions: “When you bring people into the country that are…”

Featuring: Pete Sessions, Republican | U.S. House Texas, 17th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 41:49

And I think that the point that, that I would make and perhaps Congressman Craig made, was a policy that allowed so many people to come here, created misery and conditions by which these things could flourish. When you bring people into the country that are unaccompanied matters, when you allow them thousands at a time. simply for the, for the purposes that Biden administration did, in particular, allowing people just to come in and not even care enough about trying to figure out who belongs to who and what those conditions might be. (41:49–41:59)

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Asserts that allowing thousands of unaccompanied individuals into the U.S. is significant.

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