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John Katko: “Increasingly, drug cartels use children as pawns to distract Border Patrol agents as illicit drugs are smuggled across…”

On the recordJune 9, 2021
Increasingly, drug cartels use children as pawns to distract Border Patrol agents as illicit drugs are smuggled across the border.
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John Katko
Republican · New York

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Katko discusses the exploitation of children by drug cartels at the border.

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