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There is no surge' of migrants at the border and there is no huge voter fraud problem - there is only hard-right attack

Republicans are outraged - outraged! - at the surge of migrants at the southern border. The House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, declares it a crisis ... created by the presidential policies of this new administration". The Arizona congressman Andy Biggs claims, we go through some periods where we have these surges, but right now is probably the most dramatic that I've seen at the border in my lifetime."

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