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Veronica Escobar: “It's a challenge that began four and a half years ago.”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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Our Border Community _ Veronica Escobar _ TEDxUTEP

Published | Video Starts at 11:03

… seekers themselves, to get the full idea of the scope and magnitude of the challenge that we have today. And indeed, it is a challenge. It is a tremendous challenge. It's a challenge that began four and a half years ago. In the summer of 2014, we first we in America, started seeing Central American families arriving in South Texas. And it was mostly unaccompanied minors and mamas and their children. (11:03–11:08)

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Asserts that the current border challenge began in the summer of 2014.

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