Beto O’Rourke: cities along U.S.-Mexico border safer than ones in the interior

Former Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke held a rally Monday night in El Paso, in which he said that violent crime is lower in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border than it is in other cities further inland.

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