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On the recordMay 10, 2011
We have got to be careful that we do not use that to say this happened on the U.S. side.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Cuellar warns against misrepresenting incidents that occur in Mexico as U.S. issues.

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