Ron DeSantis: “If we don't do it, you're going to have a lot of illegal…”

“But I know for a fact they are Working to build up more processing and staging capacity. If they have adequate capacity, then I'm all for them taking it. We're helping out of necessity. We're helping because If we don't do it, you're going to have a lot of illegal aliens, including criminal aliens, that are going to be released. not because DHS wants to do that, but because they have no place to be able to put them. And so I think it's been instrumental, but it's not just about those current detectives detention operations.” (36:52–36:59)

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