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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “There's 10 million jobs [in the U.S.] and particularly I…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Published | Video Starts at 28:53

We need to close the southern border and close it and secure it so that people are not coming across. And you're right. We need people in this country. We need workers in this country. There's 10 million jobs [in the U.S.] and particularly I talk to small business people every day, and the two things they talk about is taxes and no available labor. We need to get them labor, but we need to do that by widening the gates for legal immigration. What do you say? So you say close the border. (28:53–29:02)

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Claims there are 10 million job vacancies in the U.S., with small businesses struggling with taxes and labor shortages.

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