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On the recordSeptember 12, 2016
If we don't have folks being recruited from the communities that these agents were sworn to protect, it is very difficult to understand really the historic legacy that borderlands have had.
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Martha McSally
Republican · Arizona

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McSally discusses the need for local recruitment in Border Patrol.

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