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Gina Hinojosa: “We used to make exceptions in the name of public safety for those kinds of things.”

Featuring: Gina Hinojosa, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 49

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You Will, if you talk to the DA in Harris county, he will say he can't prosecute child sex abuse cases because the witnesses have been detained or deported, are too afraid to come forward. We used to make exceptions in the name of public safety for those kinds of things. but now we have almost a mercenary system where, where private prison companies are running these detention centers and making profit profits off of locking up hardened criminals and grandmothers and children. (16:25–16:31)

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Asserts that there were previously exceptions made for public safety in immigration enforcement.

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