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Tom Homan: “Over a quarter million Americans died from fentanyl coming…”

Featuring: Tom Homan, Border Czar, Trump Administration | National

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Published | Video Starts at 02:34

How is that humane? Because when you make that, when you announce that to the whole world, what happened, over 4,000 aliens died making that journey. Historic record. Over a quarter million Americans died from fentanyl coming across the border in historic record. Sex trafficking in women and children were sky high. Cartels were moving, you know, children and women across that border in the sex trade, they were moving gangs, they were moving, you know, national security threats under Trump. (02:34–02:41)

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Asserts that over 250,000 Americans died from fentanyl that crossed the border.

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