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Greg Casar: “To end for profit prisons to end for profit immigration…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 40:18

And we support legislation to make it so you no longer lock up families. Families deserve support. They shouldn't be in prisons to provide a real pathway to legalization into citizenship for immigrants in this community and To end for profit prisons to end for profit immigration detention. Because as the Congressman noted, there have been people that against the law have been kept not just over 20 days, which is the law, but have been kept for months. (40:18–40:24)

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Asserts support for ending for-profit prisons and immigration detention.

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