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On the recordApril 7, 2022
Yes. The illegal drugs that are pouring in across the country, fentanyl and other dangerous drugs, at record levels, is the reason why we had 100,000 overdose deaths last year in this country. In 2021, the number one cause of death for individuals between 18 and 45 was not COVID; it was overdose. On the border trips that I have been on--again, a couple of those with you--when you meet with the folks who live there, who live on the front lines, and they talk about these illegals, they will find the carpet shoes. We saw them. You see the carpet shoes and the camos. Once they get picked up by their crime cartel contact and picked up to go wherever they want to go in the interior of the country, you find the carpet shoes and you find the camos left behind. You will have those folks who live there tell you they are coming onto their property, they are knocking on their doors, they are threatening them and making demands of them. These folks who live on the border are finding dead bodies. The previous trip I was on in Arizona, they said they apprehended 30 Chinese nationals on their property. They are from 160 different countries, not just Central and South America, as if that wasn't enough. But to your point, 160 different countries are making every town a border town and every State a border State. It is a dereliction of duty on behalf of this President's administration.…
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Bob Good
Republican · Virginia
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Apr 7, 2022

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