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Kirsten Gillibrand: “Under this president, he's taken a lot of the money that…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Podcast Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Her Presidential Campaign and Policy Proposals

Published | Video Starts at 28:06

And the initial mission of ICE was to do anti terrorism. That was founded in 2003 to do anti terrorism. So we need to fund anti terrorism. And unfortunately, Under this president, he's taken a lot of the money that would normally go for anti human trafficking, anti drug trafficking, anti gun trafficking, and cross border terrorism, and taken all that to put moms and babies in for profit prisons. and pay for those for profit prisons. So gets me so angry So I believe that we should be funding the anti terrorism work, keeping our country safe, making sure … (28:06–28:20)

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Asserts that the current administration redirected funds from anti-trafficking and anti-terrorism to for-profit prisons.

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