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Ted Cruz: “You have to have a Social Security number [to open an…”

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

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And my response is, look, open the account and you can have, and you're required to have a Social Security number. So this was designed so illegal aliens are not eligible. You have to have a Social Security number [to open an account]. Yep. But I said, look, fraud. You can check fraud on the back end, and you can vigorously check fraud on the back end to make sure that a kid is a real kid, that they're the person, and that it's not somebody else. (30:16–30:18)

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