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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
So your men and women can do what they need to do and then we get those folks to do the changing of diapers and all of that.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Cuellar discusses funding for entry-level positions to support Border Patrol agents.

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