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On the recordMarch 7, 2016
Well, your apprehensions dropped by 30 percent from 2014 to 2015, but we need to understand how that relates to the number of individuals who tried to cross, right, to make that a meaningful number.
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John Hoeven
Republican · North Dakota

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Senator Hoeven emphasizes the need to correlate apprehensions with attempted crossings.

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