Ted Cruz: “ICE conducted over 100,000 arrests, arrests of murderers, of…”

“Sheriff, has the zero release policy dramatically reduced the burden on your deputies and on your county? Yes, sir, it has. ICE conducted over 100,000 arrests, arrests of murderers, of rapists, of child predators, of gang members. and beyond them, the gang, gang captains and cartel operatives who spread violence in our communities like a plague. We are systematically apprehending the predators who roamed free deliberately.” (04:23–04:32)

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