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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “They talk tough but action is absent. When President Clinton was in office, the average number of new Border Patrol…”

On the recordSeptember 12, 2006
They talk tough but action is absent. When President Clinton was in office, the average number of new Border Patrol agents added every year was 642. And from 2001 to 2005, the Bush administration added 411, aided by the Republican Congress.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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