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Greg Casar: “Law enforcement resources are being taken away from going…”

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

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Podcast Discussion with Congressman Greg Casar on Progressive Strategies and Cultural Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 22:42

We have to go out there and say, look, most of the people that they're arresting in some of these raids have no criminal history whatsoever. Law enforcement resources are being taken away from going after drug trafficking and gun trafficking and it's being turned towards arresting somebody with an autism awareness tattoo. And then though they're taking our taxpayer money to pay a foreign dictator to put somebody in a prison camp. And then the Supreme Court is saying bring them back. (22:42–22:53)

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Asserts that law enforcement resources are diverted from drug and gun trafficking to immigration arrests.

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