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Jimmy Gomez: “Yes, correct. Customs and Border Protection refused to let us in to see it. So the migrants sat down. We sat down with…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2019
Yes, correct. Customs and Border Protection refused to let us in to see it. So the migrants sat down. We sat down with them. We got there around 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and we didn't leave until the next day, around 7 a.m. So we spent the night. It was cold. We slept on the ground. The migrants couldn't leave the U.S. soil or the Mexican authorities would have grabbed them. So we actually got corralled, using bike racks, into kind of a cage to keep us in a certain area. Every so often, Customs and Border Patrol would wake us up to ask us who is here, how many kids, how old, but these were questions that we answered three or four times.
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Jimmy Gomez
Democratic · California
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Jul 10, 2019

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