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Paul Gosar: Oh, absolutely. The ranchers told us over and over again. One of the ranchers was working on one of his backhoes on his…

On the recordJanuary 23, 2019
Oh, absolutely. The ranchers told us over and over again. One of the ranchers was working on one of his backhoes on his property. He turned to look and a well-armed illegal is sitting there with an automatic weapon. Over and over again we see this, time and time again. We have the Border Patrol telling us, over and over again, that what they see is they will see a mass of undocumenteds that are family units or undocumented children. They have to take their resources and attach them to those people, allowing the drug cartels to swiftly move in another point of reference. It is big country, as the gentleman from Virginia got to see. There is lots of space, that goes north and south that have the advantages of cover. In fact, if I am not mistaken, the gentleman can actually tell the story of our last stop in Nogales and what happened right in front of us over the border.
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Paul Gosar
Republican · Arizona
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Jan 23, 2019

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