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Donald Trump: “Insane asylums were opened up and emptied into our country.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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It should have never happened that we have to be spending such time and resources. Mr. Senator. Right on getting people out of our country that shouldn't be here. I mean, literally from mental institutions, Insane asylums were opened up and emptied into our country. Prisons from all over the world, not just South America, prisons from, think of this, from Africa, the Congo, a lot of people from the Congo, Prisons in the Congo, prisons from Asia, from all over were opened up. (31:08–31:13)

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