I want to be very direct about this story. It's false, it's not true, it's not accurate, and the people telling it know it's false. Department of Homeland Security has said plainly that ICE holds these facilities to higher standards than a most American prison. And that's what I saw. And I have to tell you again, in my former life as a state senator, I was chairman of the Prison Gang Task Force, went … (01:10–01:19)
CLAIM
Asserts that DHS claims ICE facilities have higher standards than most American prisons.
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