… our loopholes that incentivize and reward that type of illegal immigration, in 2012, about 11,000 people came in as a family unit. Last year it was 107,000, a tenfold increase. In the first three months of this year, 75,000 people came into this country illegally and were apprehended as a family unit. This is a growing problem because we incentivize and reward people and it's not going away. It's a growing crisis, and that is the crisis of the border. (01:02–01:11)
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