Ilhan Omar: “These are not people who are undocumented, but people who…”

“About five of them are Somalis. And from what I have read and from the people that I've spoken to, all of them had already had orders of removal. So These are not people who are undocumented, but people who have committed crimes and who should have already been sent out of the country. I want to ask you something else that the architect of the president's immigration policy, Stephen Miller, said on Thanksgiving Day. He posted no magic Transformation occurs when failed states cross borders at scale.” (07:31–07:40)

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