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Chris Murphy: “ICE to increase its ranks by upwards of 10,000 personnel.”

Featuring: Chris Murphy, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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Trump's Shutdown: Can The Democrats Save Healthcare? w/ Sen. Chris Murphy

Published | Video Starts at 44:31

Whether it was what you did to raise issue with the deployment of federal troops, what you've done to stand up to his uses of spending power to bully states into submission, or Prop 50. … ICE to increase its ranks by upwards of 10,000 personnel. … hard next November, no doubt about it. Like, if you had an outcome where we won the House and we didn't win the Senate, that would, you know, spell doom for democracy. (44:31–44:35)

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