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Ted Cruz: “He was illegally in the United States. He said, I was…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 20:03

And he described. I said, well, how did you come to be at this prison? And he said, well, I was deported. So He was illegally in the United States. He said, I was deported, I was sent back to El Salvador. And he said, I committed a homicide here, was convicted of homicide. So he murdered someone in El Salvador, at least one person. And he admitted to it. (20:03–20:08)

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Asserts that the MS-13 gang member was illegally in the U.S. and was deported to El Salvador.

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