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Jacob Frey: “You can't just detain somebody because they look like they…”

Featuring: Jacob Frey, Democratic–Farmer–Labor | Mayor of Minneapolis | Minnesota

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Published | Video Starts at 05:46

And then randomly pick people up off the street after that. I mean, we have had pregnant women dragged through the street. We've had teenagers that are American citizens just picked up. You can't just detain somebody because they look like they are Somali or they look like they are Latino. To be very clear, for the whole country, that is what is happening right now, so look, do I think that we should just abolish the entire entity that does immigration enforcement? (05:46–05:54)

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Asserts that detaining individuals based on appearance is unconstitutional.

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