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On the recordMarch 20, 2012
if anyone thinks for a moment that Hezbollah and Quds Force, the masters at leveraging and exploiting existing illicit infrastructures globally, are not going to focus on our Southwest border, and use that as perhaps a spring board in attacking our country, then they just don't understand how the real underworld works.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas

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McCaul warns about Hezbollah's potential threats through the Southwest border.

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