Stephen Miller: “There's a reason why in Mexico, the justice system doesn't…”

“Those organizations not only export massive death in the form of narcotics to our country, but they also export sophisticated criminal enterprises whose objective is to destabilize our democracy and to end the rule of law in our country. There's a reason why in Mexico, the justice system doesn't work, the political system doesn't work, the legal system doesn't work. It's because you have territory controlled and occupied by terrorist organizations who kill, extort, kidnap, or murder anybody who gets in the way. And the line that is keeping that reality from existing in our country is the borderline that you are defending each and every day, the lives that you have saved already.” (19:56–20:14)

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