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Greg Casar: “The overwhelming majority of the people locked up at Dilley…”

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

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Congressman Greg Casar: I Saw With My Own Eyes How Trump and ICE Lie

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

… the lies that the Trump administration tells about its incarceration of kids and families at Dilley. We went into the facility where there are hundreds of innocent kids and families. The overwhelming majority of the people locked up at Dilley are either children or single women. They tell us that they're rounding up the, quote, worst of the worst. But not a single person we talk to today has any criminal history at all. (00:22–00:31)

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Asserts that most detainees at Dilley are children or single women.

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