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Veronica Escobar: “Our OFO personnel are understaffed, and it's been a chronic…”

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

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Veronica Escobar Questions CBP Commissioner About Level Of Training Given To Military At Border

Published | Video Starts at 02:08

But what I have heard, long before I was in Congress, from my neighbors, friends, et cetera, who work for cbp, is how understaffed Our OFO personnel are understaffed, and it's been a chronic issue. It precedes my time in Congress, as I mentioned. And the staffing model, I think, needs to be reconfigured. (02:08–02:13)

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