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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordMarch 14, 2018
So I think that that helps. I can go back--we are looking at building 316 more miles of wall out of that 2,000.
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Don Bacon
Republican · Nebraska
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Bacon discusses the planned construction of additional border wall miles.

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