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On the recordJune 10, 2014
Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came illegally as children had no effect in causing a dramatic increase in children being handed over to international cartels to be smuggled in here illegally?
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Ted Cruz
Republican · Texas

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Cruz questions the impact of DACA on child smuggling.

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