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Ted Cruz: “The Sticot prison, El Salvador, built to house the very…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:23

All right, so, Senator, let's start with the big part of your trip. You mentioned a moment ago you actually went in and saw the prison that everybody's been talking about. Well, well, I did. The Sticot prison, El Salvador, built to house the very worst gang members. It's a maximum security prison. It has a capacity of 40,000 prisoners. And they built it with that capacity because that was their estimate of the gang members that they were looking at that they wanted to incapacitate. (04:23–04:35)

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