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Tammy Baldwin: “It would have added 1500 new border patrol agents to our…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Wisconsin U.S. Senate Debate

Published | Video Starts at 21:36

Again, the question was about the bipartisan bill. Yes. So we negotiated on a bipartisan basis in the Senate the toughest border bill that we've seen in years. It would have added 1500 new border patrol agents to our southern border and had it passed in this spring, they would be there now. Very importantly, the bill also deployed technology to our southern border to allow us to scan every vehicle that comes through our ports of entry. That would have allowed us to interdict fentanyl. (21:36–21:46)

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