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Greg Casar: “There's not a single person in the Dilley Detention Facility…”

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

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Congressman Greg Casar on Children Suffering at Dilley Detention Center

Published | Video Starts at 01:07

Most of the teachers, quote, unquote, there have no training in that, no license. They say they're going after the worst of the worst. There's not a single person in the Dilley Detention Facility here in Texas who has any criminal record at all. Basically everyone is a young woman or a young child. Our tax dollars should not be going to locking up kids in this country. (01:07–01:16)

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Asserts that no detainees at Dilley Detention Facility have criminal records.

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