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Mark Kelly: “A very small percentage of the people that he has arrested…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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LIVE: Senator Mark Kelly holds town hall in Tucson, AZ

Published | Video Starts at 55:28

This president ran on getting rid of, you know, gang members and criminals and drug dealers. That makes sense. That's fine. But what he's doing is not that. And very, A very small percentage of the people that he has arrested and thrown in an ICE detention center or deported are that category, gang members, criminals, drug dealers. The rest are people like a woman I met at an ICE facility who's still there. She's been there for months. Her name's Kelly Yu. (55:28–55:41)

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Asserts that a small percentage of ICE detainees are gang members, criminals, or drug dealers.

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