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JB Pritzker: “Only 5% of the people that they detained were people who…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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American Conversations: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker

Published | Video Starts at 30:16

And they could do this to anybody who did. They choose to do that to black and brown people and people who spoke with an accent and, and Only 5% of the people that they detained were people who were undocumented and had broken a law. So 95%. 95% were just people who were either US citizens or had every right to do what they were doing and shouldn't have been stopped. (30:16–30:27)

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Asserts that 95% of those detained by CBP and ICE were not undocumented or lawbreakers.

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