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John Cornyn: “Recently we voted for $170 billion addition to the funding…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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… being used to repatriate or deport people with criminal records out of the country, that somehow that they are being diverted from other law enforcement activities. But I'll note that Recently we voted for $170 billion addition to the funding for ICE for detention facilities and for personnel and training. And all of our Democratic colleagues voted against it. So I don't know. You really can't have it both ways. (05:11–05:23)

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