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Markwayne Mullin: “We only have one family detention center right now and it's…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Is there, are there still efforts to expand child and family detention? To expand child and family detention? I don't know if that's so. We have, We only have one family detention center right now and it's in Texas because of President Trump's secure border. And we have zero coming into the country legally at this point. We, the detention center is not even close to being at capacity. (25:46–25:53)

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Asserts that there is only one family detention center in Texas due to President Trump's border policies.

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