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Mark Warner: “Only about 25% of the people who were arrested and deported…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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American Conversations: Senator Mark Warner

Published | Video Starts at 03:34

… each office is given a quota of the number of people they need to deport, that leads to screw ups. That leads to what we saw in last year where Only about 25% of the people who were arrested and deported from Virginia had any prior criminal record. So the idea that he was only going to go after the bad guys has not proven to be the case. And it has lent enormous fear into immigrant communities regardless of people's legal status. (03:34–03:43)

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