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Tom Tiffany: “1 in 10 people die going through the Darien Gap.”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

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Illegals In America - What's Next Ft. - Congressman Tom Tiffany

Published | Video Starts at 38:53

… to come just make themselves a better life for most of them, they're not going to make themselves a better life. But you're also, you've created this humanitarian crisis that 1 in 10 people die going through the Darien Gap. They come out with gangrene and have to have a limb cut off. Babies don't make it through and so they end up drowning in the river. (38:53–38:57)

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Asserts that 10% of people die crossing the Darien Gap.

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