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Tom Homan: “A lot of county jails cancel the contracts because they…”

Featuring: Tom Homan, Border Czar, Trump Administration | National

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Homan urges politicians to bring cameras into ICE facilities, see conditions for themselves

Published | Video Starts at 03:33

If I don't give these detention standards to US Citizens, why you want me to give them to illegal ambulance at such a high cost? They can't afford our detention standards. So A lot of county jails cancel the contracts because they can't keep up with these high detention standards. I want your viewers. Go to ice.govice.gov and look up the detention standards and read those standards. A lot of American citizens might get upset at the high level of our standards and the cost of those standards. (03:33–03:39)

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Asserts that many county jails cancel contracts with ICE due to high detention standards.

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