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On the recordApril 5, 2022
I just asked my friends down there in the Rio Grande Valley and it is about the same, 50 to 60 percent of the Border Patrol agents are in the processing centers and not out in the fields.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Cuellar discusses the staffing issues of Border Patrol agents in processing centers.

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