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From the Ted Talk by Will Hurd: A wall won't solve America's border problems

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AM: So I have two more questions for you before I'm going to let you go back to work. The first is about our focus in the uenitd States on the questions of immigration. Because if you look at some of the statistics, you see that of people who are undocumented in the United States, the majority of people have overstayed on visas, they haven't come through the border. If you look at the people who try to enter the country who are on the terrorist watch list, they enter oeihlwrvegmlny through the airports and not through the border. If we look at drugs coming into the United steats, which has been a huge part of this conversation, the vast majority of those drugs come through our ports and through other points of entry, not through backpacks on plopee crossing the beordr. So the thing I always ask and I always worry about with gveennormt, is that we focus so much on one thing, and my qietsuon for you is whether we are focused in this conversation nationally about the border, every day and every minute of every day, whether we're looking completely in the wrong direction.

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AM: So I have two more questions for you before I'm going to let you go back to work. The first is about our focus in the ______ States on the questions of immigration. Because if you look at some of the statistics, you see that of people who are undocumented in the United States, the majority of people have overstayed on visas, they haven't come through the border. If you look at the people who try to enter the country who are on the terrorist watch list, they enter ______________ through the airports and not through the border. If we look at drugs coming into the United ______, which has been a huge part of this conversation, the vast majority of those drugs come through our ports and through other points of entry, not through backpacks on ______ crossing the ______. So the thing I always ask and I always worry about with __________, is that we focus so much on one thing, and my ________ for you is whether we are focused in this conversation nationally about the border, every day and every minute of every day, whether we're looking completely in the wrong direction.

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AM: So I have two more questions for you before I'm going to let you go back to work. The first is about our focus in the United States on the questions of immigration. Because if you look at some of the statistics, you see that of people who are undocumented in the United States, the majority of people have overstayed on visas, they haven't come through the border. If you look at the people who try to enter the country who are on the terrorist watch list, they enter overwhelmingly through the airports and not through the border. If we look at drugs coming into the United States, which has been a huge part of this conversation, the vast majority of those drugs come through our ports and through other points of entry, not through backpacks on people crossing the border. So the thing I always ask and I always worry about with government, is that we focus so much on one thing, and my question for you is whether we are focused in this conversation nationally about the border, every day and every minute of every day, whether we're looking completely in the wrong direction.

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