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Adam Schiff: “None of these folks, none of them had a criminal record.”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Adam Schiff Criticizes Kristi Noem's Tenure at DHS and Controversial Autobiography

Published | Video Starts at 05:37

I've met with farm workers, young children of farm workers who've had their fathers taken away from them. I've met with wives who've had their husbands pulled out of cars at traffic stops or at gas stations and deported. None of these folks, none of them had a criminal record. These were people who had been toiling in the fields through heat and cold, through pandemic and non pandemic to put food on our table. And yet these families are separated. (05:37–05:41)

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Asserts that deported individuals under Kristi Noem's policy had no criminal record.

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