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On the recordSeptember 12, 2023
If the border is open, which we continue to hear over and over and over again, then why is it that people are drowning in the Rio Grande?
Said by
Delia Ramirez
Democratic · Illinois

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Questions the narrative of an open border amidst migrant deaths.

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