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Scott Stringer: “You could be picked off the street at 8 o'clock in the…”

Featuring: Scott Stringer, Democratic | Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

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New York City Forum on Sanctuary City Laws and Immigrant Protections

Published | Video Starts at 16:05

I feel it with myself at some point as well. The young people in this audience today are facing challenges that previous generations really did not face. The notion that You could be picked off the street at 8 o'clock in the evening, sent not just to a local institution, prison institution, but can be moved to Louisiana or deep six somewhere, never to be heard from again. is something so against the Constitution, everything this country in this city stands for. We need a mayor who is going to not just stand tall and strong against Trump, … (16:05–16:28)

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