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Eric Swalwell: “Mr. Secretary, you would agree that this crisis and the attention that your Border Patrol Agents has had to give to…”

On the recordJune 23, 2014
Mr. Secretary, you would agree that this crisis and the attention that your Border Patrol Agents has had to give to these children has diverted away from their attention to securing the rest of our Southern Border?
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

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Swalwell highlights the diversion of Border Patrol resources due to the crisis.

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