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Mike Cloud: “In the few years that I have been in office, we have gone from the coyotes on the Southern side of the border who kind…”

On the recordJune 26, 2022
In the few years that I have been in office, we have gone from the coyotes on the Southern side of the border who kind of duck and hide until our armed border patrol would move their posts, and then they would try to sneak people and drugs across, to now the coyotes are armed sometimes better than our Border Patrol agents.
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Mike Cloud
Republican · Texas

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Cloud describes the escalating threat from armed cartels at the border.

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