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Troy Downing: “We were basically being invaded from the southern border.”

Featuring: Troy Downing, Republican | U.S. House Montana, 2nd Congressional District

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Extended interview with U.S. Rep. Troy Downing

Published | Video Starts at 09:51

Well, we need to have some serious conversations about immigration, and we need to figure out how we can do that. I mean, what was happening was not. Was not sustainable. I mean, We were basically being invaded from the southern border. And we had folks that weren't just, you know, economic refugees. We had. We had bad actors from, you know, potentially hostile countries that were coming in and disappearing into the population. (09:51–09:54)

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Asserts that the situation at the southern border was akin to an invasion.

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