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Donald Trump: “We took 5,000 career criminals, people that were really…”

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It's the capital. And we had a very, very terrible crime rate here. And it's down now. We're going to have it down. I think we'll get it above 92% down. We took 5,000 career criminals, people that were really, really bad. They came through the open border. I'm sure you guys love open borders. I don't think so, but they came through on the open borders. They came out of prisons and mental institutions, and they came over the place. (10:03–10:11)

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