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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 recordApril 29, 2019
I do not think your men and women wake up in the morning trying to see how they are going to hurt some of the immigrants.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
Source
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Editor's note · Context

Cuellar defends Border Patrol agents, asserting their intent is not to harm immigrants.

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