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Colin Allred: “They're going to do $38 billion on converting warehouses to…”

Featuring: Colin Allred, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Texas

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And you want to think about what that money could do for education in this country or health care in this country. Right. But for detention centers, which you probably read the other day, I think they said They're going to do $38 billion on converting warehouses to add more detention centers and to hire the biggest private army in the world in ice. And they've lowered the standards for the hiring, they've reduced the training and they've lowered the accountability. And so that's why you see what you're seeing, which is Unqualified, unaccountable, basically, you know, cowboys out there doing what we saw in Minnesota. (21:54–22:05)

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