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John Fleming: “Thank you, my good friend from Minnesota. That's precisely what I'm hearing in Louisiana, north Louisiana. Again, they…”

On the recordJuly 8, 2013
Thank you, my good friend from Minnesota. That's precisely what I'm hearing in Louisiana, north Louisiana. Again, they go, why is it so complicated, fix the border, secure the border. It's not just about the external border. Remember, 40 percent of those here illegally are because of their visa overstays. So we've also got to have internal security too. This doesn't count all the other issues: the crime, the criminal elements, the terrorists and others that come across the border. Yes, my constituents are 100 percent behind us on that.
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John Fleming
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Jul 8, 2013

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