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Donald Trump: “Some of these countries were emptying their prisons into the…”

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Full Trump rally speech in PA: Iran war, economy and more addressed at Lehigh Valley event

Published | Video Starts at 1:16:12

I mean, they'd love to have it be high, but it. We can't do that. We have a country and we're going to run it. Well, we don't want to have prisons released into our. Some of these countries were emptying their prisons into the United States of America through the southern border. Prisons, prison population. Some of the countries had no prison population left. You know what that saves them? Some of them had no mental institutions. The mental institutions were taken. (1:16:12–1:16:18)

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Asserts that foreign countries were sending their prison populations to the U.S. via the southern border.

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