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On the recordNovember 16, 2011
If you can get to Mexico, you can get to the United States, so it makes sense that world terrorists want to use the drug cartels, who are the absolute best smugglers into the United States, to get into our country.
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Ted Poe
Republican · Texas

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Ted Poe discusses the connection between drug cartels and terrorism.

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