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Trisha Calvarese: “She could have gone ahead and funded custom and border…”

Featuring: Trisha Calvarese, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Colorado, District 4

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Meet The Democrat Challenging Lauren Boebert: ‘A Bad Politician Who Doesn't Align With Our Values’

Published | Video Starts at 09:20

If Representative Boebert cared so much about fixing the immigration system because it's a systematic problem, then she would have gone ahead and signed on to that bipartisan border bill as a start. Or She could have gone ahead and funded custom and border patrols at the level they requested instead of proposing major, major cuts. So she's not taking this issue seriously. We're not going to demonize immigrants. We're smart folks. We can separate. (09:20–09:28)

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Asserts that Representative Boebert proposed major cuts to the funding requested by customs and border patrols.

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