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Henry Cuellar: “What the ICE folks are doing, they're looking for low…”

Featuring: Henry Cuellar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 28

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Supporting DACA Recipients

Published | Video Starts at 00:55

Some are students and some are not, but they're daca, they're dreamers itself. And I think, with all due respect, I think what they're doing, What the ICE folks are doing, they're looking for low hanging fruit. They go and look for DACA folks, they go look for folks who are coming out of immigration courts. And I know that because I've sat down with folks in the detention centers. And again, again, I understand what you're saying. It's not clear in this amendment, but it doesn't have to be clear. (00:55–01:07)

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Asserts that ICE targets DACA recipients and individuals exiting immigration courts as easy targets for detention.

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