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A crash on Highway 52 closes part of the road, leaving only one lane open

-- >> but we don't ignore it. we just don't say they are the same issue. they are two different issues with two different solutions. >> i think the reality is that to pretend that they are somehow disconnected actually prevents us from getting -- >> well, i'm just trying to find a solution. so, if one solution is having more scanners and having more people scanned a tractor trailers, that seems easier than -- >> okay, but i don't hear president biden standing behind the podium and saying we are would have more scanners tomorrow. >> -- like this is a four year old issue -- this has been going o...

Cannot have a serious conversation about securing the border until you actually have secured it, by which now people can take you seriously. so, it has to start their. and i think that any other conversation is actually disingenuous and prevent people from putting down their partisan blinders and engage and engaging in the type of robust -- >> will, that is not going to solve the fentanyl crisis. in other words, if what we need to be looking at tractor-trailers that are coming illegally, let's try to solve that one first -- >> to be clear, even if you had more scanners tomorrow, we would stop ...

This is not coming from those people. this is coming in tractor-trailers across legal ports of entry. that is where all these drugs are being ceased. and i think these problems are getting conflated. and it is very important to think of these as two distinct issues. and the solutions to the drug smuggling problem is not about asylum seekers or migrants. it is about these high tech scanners that look inside these trucks and can find -- >> we don't have enough of those. you are saying? >> yeah, exactly. >> like, we are just undermanned at the border? >> right. so, experts say we need more tech. ...

Several people were taken to the hospital following the crash, which involved approximately 15 vehicles, state police said.