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Tom Barrett: “We had more than 10 or some estimates of 15 million or more…”

Featuring: Tom Barrett, Republican | U.S. House, Michigan, District 7

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Candidate Interview: Tom Barrett (R) Representative in Congress - 7th District

Published | Video Starts at 23:50

If you look back just a few years ago, we had a completely wide open and unenforced border. We had more than 10 or some estimates of 15 million or more illegal immigrants coming into the country completely unchecked by our federal government. They were taking people in and immediately releasing them back out into the interior of the country. People that were on the terror watch list, people that were convicted of violent and dangerous crimes in their home countries. (23:50–24:00)

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Asserts that there were estimates of 10 to 15 million illegal immigrants entering the U.S. unchecked.

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