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Ruben Gallego: “We just blew up a boat, took two of the survivors, picked…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Published | Video Starts at 04:59

And yet we're using the power of the US Military to kill these men. And at the same time, we're saying, like, these guys are all dangerous and they're criminal. But, for example, We just blew up a boat, took two of the survivors, picked them up, put them on one of our navy ships, and then return them to their home countries. If they're such big criminals that we had to essentially drone them from the sky to. To kill them for being dangerous and try to, you know, move drugs, why are we releasing them back to their countries? (04:59–05:08)

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Asserts that the U.S. military attacked a boat, captured survivors, and returned them to their home countries.

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