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John Cornyn: “There's still roughly 480,000 people who are under final…”

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Published | Video Starts at 05:11

In places like Texas, most of those transfers occur in the county jail because the county and the state recognize federal detainers, which is hold on to this person until we can be there and take the hand off. But There's still roughly 480,000 people who are under final orders of deportation. In other words, they've exhausted all their legal remedies, they've claimed asylum, they've gone into an immigration court, and they've appealed it up to the very top of that court system. (05:11–05:19)

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