Michael Dubke: Who’s crossing the US border?

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Former White House communications director under President Donald Trump, Michael Dubke warns that uncontrolled border crossings make it impossible to know if criminals are among those entering.

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00:00There is this perception that people who enter the country illegally or who cross the border,

00:06immigrants of any description, are more likely to commit crimes.

00:09And it's something we hear a lot from people in Donald Trump's inner sanctum.

00:14Well, they do. But here's the problem. How do we know?

00:18We don't know who's coming across the border.

00:20When you have a situation in which you have no idea who's coming across the border,

00:25it allows you to make some suppositions on who those individuals are.

00:32I am sure that the vast majority of the individuals that are crossing the border

00:37are doing it for economic reasons, for a better life for their family.

00:40But that still doesn't alleviate the fact that you do have criminals.

00:46You do have individuals that want to cause harm to the United States

00:50crossing that border and for us to have no idea who they are and where they are.

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