Brad Lander: “He's trying to ratchet fear up and use mass deportation to…”

“I, you know, I said, if you show me the judicial warrant, I'll let go. And they never showed me the why are these cases getting. Because Donald Trump has promised to deport millions of people. He's trying to ratchet fear up and use mass deportation to distract from his hideous legislation that is going to strip health care away from millions of Americans. that's going to defund our cities. And rather than come up with a better budget bill bill, he is trying to point at immigrants and deport millions of them and focus on, like, wreaking havoc by coming after Democratic elected officials.” (05:09–05:21)

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