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Ted Cruz: Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came illegally as children had no effect in…

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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