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Ted Cruz: “There's never been a hundred billion dollar investment in…”

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

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And now we provided the funding to build the wall, to put in technology, to hire border patrol, to hire ice, to invest in law enforcement. All of that is designed to make these massive improvements stick. That is, as a conservative, There's never been a hundred billion dollar investment in securing the border. You know, it's interesting. I, I was speaking yesterday to a realtor group. They asked me to come and speak and they said to me they never could have imagined … (05:06–05:10)

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Asserts that this is the first time a $100 billion investment has been made in border security.

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