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Ruben Gallego: “Whenever you see a downturn in remittances, it's also when…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Accelerate USA 2026: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 06:34

And whether I was in the State House, House of Representatives or in Senate, and what you find is that the worst thing you could ever do is make it harder to send remittances to Latin American countries, especially Whenever you see a downturn in remittances, it's also when you see an uptick in refugees and asylums, asylum seekers. The thing is that the problem is that there's kind of a choke point about how you can send remittances to different parts of Latin America. (06:34–06:40)

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Asserts a correlation between downturns in remittances and increases in refugees and asylum seekers.

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