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Jon Stewart: “They've deported citizens or they've jailed citizens.”

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Sen. John Fetterman on Democratic Divides, DSA & Israel | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

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But not agreeing with their method of trying. How do Democrats influence that? If the Trump administration is running roughshod over what you just said, they're not just doing the criminals. They've deported citizens or they've jailed citizens. They've taken immigration, which was generally a civil concern, and made it a criminal concern. They want to build giant warehouses where they just bring people that are there on, on civil violations or what used to be civil violations. (15:08–15:15)

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Asserts that the Trump administration has deported or jailed U.S. citizens.

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