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Dick Durbin: “Some were US Citizens, legal residents, and people with no…”

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

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Durbin Denounces Recent Surge In Trump Administration's Cruel Campaign Against Immigrants

Published | Video Starts at 00:49

He said it over and over and over again. Turns out the worst of the worst didn't fit in that category at all. Who were they? Some were US Citizens, legal residents, and people with no prior criminal history whatsoever. None. And the administration brutally carried out this political theater by deploying military grade weapons and using overwhelming displays of force that left communities and our country on edge. (00:49–00:57)

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Asserts that ICE targeted U.S. citizens, legal residents, and people with no criminal history during raids.

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