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Greg Casar: “City Council is moving forward with all due haste at their…”

Featuring: Greg Casar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 35

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Council Member Greg Casar on Immigrant Safety

Published | Video Starts at 26:06

… your news stories might say, everyone in this country has legal rights and is protected by our Constitution. And everyone deserves to have access to counsel. And that's why the City Council is moving forward with all due haste at their next Council meeting to make an emergency appropriation to get people the defense they need. I think that's part of the problem, is that we don't. We don't have these answers. We're simply getting information from constituents, from social media, and there has been no statement by this public safety agency to explain what exactly they're doing, under. (26:06–26:15)

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Asserts that the City Council plans to allocate emergency funds for legal defense.

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