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Vicente Gonzalez: “There was about 200,000 coming through Central America…”

Featuring: Vicente Gonzalez, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 34

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Texas Congressman Vicente Gonzalez discusses pressure on border towns as Title 42 ends

Published | Video Starts at 04:25

I know there's about 20 or 30,000 people holding up on the other side of the border. Now. There's about 60,000 making their way here, and there's approximately. They say, he told me There was about 200,000 coming through Central America, through the daring area in Colombia and Panama. That is a massive amount of people that if they all showed up at one time, I don't know that we have the resources in place and infrastructure in place to deal with it properly. (04:25–04:36)

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Asserts that around 200,000 people are traveling through Central America, Colombia, and Panama.

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