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Dick Durbin: “It was the Biden Justice Department that opened the…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Criticizes Trump For Disparaging Somali Americans, Refugees During Subcommittee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 04:13

This racism should have no place in our society or in our immigration system, and it should have no place in this committee. Let's be clear. Fraud is a crime and it should be prosecuted. I will remind everyone that It was the Biden Justice Department that opened the Minnesota fraud investigation and brought the first prosecution. And it is the Trump Justice Department that has diverted prosecutors and FBI agents away from fraud investigations to focus on the president's mass deportation campaign. (04:13–04:20)

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Asserts that the Biden Justice Department initiated the Minnesota fraud investigation and prosecution.

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