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Donald Trump: “They emptied out prisons into our country. They emptied out…”

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

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Extended interview: President Trump on White House Correspondents' Dinner

Published | Video Starts at 03:17

25 million people, at least. And many of them were from hardcore criminals and they were drug dealers and they were from prisons. They emptied out prisons into our country. They emptied out mental institutions, insane asylums into our country. And I don't know if that's controversial to say we have to move those people out, but we have. But it is. From the standpoint you're doing something and you're doing something that's good. (03:17–03:24)

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Asserts that foreign countries emptied prisons and mental institutions into the U.S.

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