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Colin Allred: “We have to have removal proceedings for folks who are here…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 09:41

And I think that's because it's meant as a threat to the judiciary to say that there will be no check on what we are trying to do. And listen, again, I come back to this. We have to have removal proceedings for folks who are here who shouldn't be. In fact, we've actually seen those numbers in some cases decrease during the Trump presidency. So we have to have removal proceedings. Well, they're not doing the procedure, the proceedings. (09:41–09:45)

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Asserts the necessity of removal proceedings for undocumented individuals.

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