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Kathy Hochul: “ICE is an $85 billion agency. They have hired everybody they…”

Featuring: Kathy Hochul, Democratic | Governor of New York

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Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks on ICE raids and taxes on PIX11

Published | Video Starts at 05:56

What I have identified is the fact that when our local police are doing something other than focus on local crimes, they're not keeping the communities they're sworn to protect safe. ICE is an $85 billion agency. They have hired everybody they can get their hands on with very little training. I might add. And so they have the resources and the personnel. They do not need to be coming in and talking to our local officials and persuading them or different counties to have agreements that say that we're going to use your. (05:56–06:04)

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Asserts that ICE is an $85 billion agency with inadequately trained personnel.

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