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Brad Lander: “They've deported the wrong person to a torture prison and…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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… to believe they will be looking at everyone they can for every procedural or immigration law violation, regardless of where their criminal case stands and when you know already that They've deported the wrong person to a torture prison and refused to get him back. How could you feel okay about having them run around on Rikers? It makes no sense to me, so. And I think it's a bipartisan issue. (16:45–16:52)

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Asserts that ICE mistakenly deported someone to a torture prison and did not rectify the mistake.

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