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Ted Cruz: “Had the Democrats open border policies continued, there…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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… be alive if President Trump had not been reelected and if Republicans had not won control of Congress. Would you agree with that? That is correct. It means, tragically, that Had the Democrats open border policies continued, there would be more and more rows of people, Americans holding pictures of loved ones. We don't know who the loved ones are that weren't murdered this last year. We don't know who the loved ones were that didn't die of fentanyl overdoses. (08:22–08:34)

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Asserts that Democratic open border policies would have resulted in more American deaths.

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