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Ted Cruz: “Arresting and deporting murderers and gang bangers will…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 41:15

The Chronicle says nobody can figure out why. It's completely inexplicable. The experts we talk about have no idea why the murder rate is dropping. And it, like, doesn't occur to them that Arresting and deporting murderers and gang bangers will reduce the murder rate. Like, like, it's not. This is not rocket science. Yeah, fewer murderers means fewer murders. But yet to Democrats, that makes no sense to them. Yeah. And so that message was good. (41:15–41:21)

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Asserts that arresting and deporting criminals reduces the murder rate.

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