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Donald Trump: “They were allowing people to come in from prisons, as you…”

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

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ABC News Exclusive: President Trump's First 100 Days of Second Term

Published | Video Starts at 05:12

So what's the one thing, just one thing that you think is the most significant thing you've done so far in these hundred days? Well, I think maybe the border is the most significant because our country was really going bad. They were allowing people to come in from prisons, as you know, and you've heard me say it, but you've heard a lot of people say it. Prisons, mental institutions, gang members, murderers. We had many murderers, 11,888. They think some murdered more than one person. So you had murderers coming in. You had everybody coming in, and not just South America, from all over the world. (05:12–05:23)

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Asserts that people from prisons, mental institutions, and gang members were entering the U.S.

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