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Fred Clark: “Those 3,000 agents don't have a thing to do with rooting out…”

Featuring: Fred Clark, Democratic | Former Member, Wisconsin State Assembly

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Fred Clark | Wisconsin 7th Congressional District Candidate | DrydenWire

Published | Video Starts at 28:38

They need to. ICE needs to go back to the kind of surgical, focused role of immigration enforcement. That is the reason the agency was created. That's number one. Also, Those 3,000 agents don't have a thing to do with rooting out fraud in welfare programs. So that needs to be investigated, and it already has been. But that needs to continue because it appears that that was a massive fraud that defrauded taxpayers of, I don't know, hundreds of millions of dollars. (28:38–28:44)

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Asserts that the 3,000 agents are not involved in investigating welfare fraud.

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