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Tammy Baldwin: “It's those vehicles that are bringing in most of the illicit…”

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

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Tammy Baldwin on City Cast Madison podcast

Published | Video Starts at 07:34

Also, it deployed technology to the southern border that allows us to screen every vehicle that comes in, not just the sort of hand inspection that they do of a small sample or small share of the number of vehicles that come in. It's those vehicles that are bringing in most of the illicit fentanyl that is killing Wisconsinites and people across the country. And if we had have passed this measure in the spring when it was ready to go, we would already have those 1500 additional border patrol agents and we would be screening all of the vehicles coming through. (07:34–07:43)

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Asserts that most illicit fentanyl enters the US through vehicles at the southern border.

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