Tom Cole: “We've had two crises on the southern border declared by…”

“Literally thousands of people caught up in human trafficking, victims of sexual exploitation, 76,000 people last month that we apprehended, others that obviously we didn't because we don't get everybody. I call that a crisis. And it's getting worse, not better. And We've had two crises on the southern border declared by President Obama. One related to drug cartels. We know that's a crisis. The other one was actually another one of these unaccompanied children surges in 2014, where Congress then gave him what he asked for, which is about 3.7 or $9 billion.” (10:36–10:42)

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