Kathy Hochul: “This is really what America has become, where agents who…”

“And basically they rounded up 69 people, all of them Latino at the time, again sorted by the color of the skin. I was in that room today. I saw where this trauma unfolded. And this makes you pause. This is really what America has become, where agents who claim they're there to deal with violent criminals, turns out they only had administrative warrants. They didn't even have criminal warrants. They misrepresented the justification for even coming on the grounds to the owners who were there told, stay over here because there's someone who, you know, homicide suspects are on the grounds, which was truly false.” (18:49–19:03)

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