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Tucker Carlson: “Somalia's not a huge country, so we only have hundreds of…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Tucker Carlson on the Somali Invasion and the Self-Loathing Ideology Destroying America

Published | Video Starts at 08:38

So again, it's not an accident when the United States intervenes or backs an intervention somewhere in the world, you can be certain the people from that country will be living in your zip code within 10 years. And that's exactly what happened. Somalia's not a huge country, so we only have hundreds of thousands [of Somali refugees]. In other cases, we got millions. And by the way, some have done fine and some have done great. The Vietnamese did well, the Catholic Vietnamese did well. (08:38–08:42)

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Asserts that the U.S. has accepted hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees.

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