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On the recordMay 15, 2023
We cannot charge them with those crimes, but we can pay them to charge them with the crimes that they are deriding us for charging them with.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas

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Criticism of Mexico's refusal to cooperate on fentanyl smuggling charges.

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