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James Talarico: “We should be going after the cartels, not our communities…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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Published | Video Starts at 39:16

And that's a failure from George W. Bush to Barack Obama to Donald Trump the first time, Joe Biden and Donald Trump the second time. What I'm saying is We should be going after the cartels, not our communities. We should be hunting down human traffickers, not moms and babies. We should be deporting gang members, not small business owners. But we did that. So. And I. And I think that was great to have a prioritization in terms of deportation, much better than what we have now. (39:16–39:29)

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Advocates for targeting criminal elements rather than non-criminal undocumented immigrants.

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