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On the recordJune 23, 2014
How can we continue to have free and fair trade with a country that not only takes our money but is actually profiting from these drug cartels?
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Cuellar questions the ethics of trade with Mexico amidst issues of drug trafficking.

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