To assist them with bed space. They didn't have the place to put illegal aliens that had been apprehended. And so from the time we launched that last summer till now, That center down in the Everglades Airport has been responsible for almost 22,000 illegal aliens being processed and then deported from the state of Florida. If we didn't have that facility, DHS did not have room to put them anywhere. They would have been released back to the public. (23:48–24:07)
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