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Vicente Gonzalez: “There's about 20 or 30,000 people holding up on the other…”

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 04:15

And we don't have massive states and centers for potentially hundreds of thousands of people showing up at once. I had a conversation with the president of Guatemala a few days ago. 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. (04:15–04:19)

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Asserts that 20,000 to 30,000 people are waiting on the other side of the border.

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