Ted Cruz: “President Bucalli told me roughly half of those Salvadorans…”

“You wanted to get out. Now we are seeing reverse migration. There are roughly 6 million Salvadorans in El Salvador. There are about 3 million Salvadorans in the United States. President Bucalli told me roughly half of those Salvadorans in America, about one and a half million, have said they want to come back to El Salvador. They're seeing reverse migration because suddenly people are saying, wait, I fled my country because I was terrified for my safety and my family. Now the country's safe.” (36:00–36:09)

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