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Ted Cruz: “The sheer quantity, 18,000 known and suspected terrorists.”

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

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DEMS Let 18K Terrorists into America plus Trump Leads on AI & Moving to Designate the Muslim Brot...

Published | Video Starts at 13:36

This was done in a way that they knew was a problem, and they knew the problem was getting bigger and bigger, and they didn't care what happened to average Americans. Yeah, look, the. The sheer quantity, 18,000 known and suspected terrorists. It'd be one thing if the Biden administration, in four years, they let in a dozen known and suspected terrorists. 100 known and suspected terrorists. That would be concerning. (13:36–13:43)

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