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Ilhan Omar: “When you think about the mass deportation program under…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Rep. ILHAN OMAR Talks Terror In Minneapolis And Becoming American

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:28

Were you to be successful in the midterms to, like, close the places, shut the places down where people have been sent without due process and are dying? Is that possible? I do believe. Right. When you think about the mass deportation program under Obama and private detention centers becoming a thing under Obama, you now see Democrats finally realizing that we cannot create systems that can be exploited by evil. Yeah. To them, they thought at the time, you know, this was cost saving or it was a way to expedite or to do something in a way to reform the system. (1:01:28–1:01:51)

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Asserts that mass deportation and private detention centers began under Obama and are now being reconsidered by Democrats.

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