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Russell Fry: “When Mr. Martinez, who came to the country and he's Kayla's…”

Featuring: Russell Fry, Republican | U.S. House South Carolina, District 7

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Kayla is no stranger to that. And if we were a little bit smarter as a country during the Biden administration, maybe we would have seen the signs. You know, When Mr. Martinez, who came to the country and he's Kayla's murder, when he came into the country, they were doing paper mache products and asking him gender identity rather than looking into his background. Yes, he was a minor, but he was not an innocent minor. He had a criminal background in his home country. He had gang tattoos. (06:40–06:52)

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