Tom Homan: “A lot of people in that facility are mandatory detention by…”

“And they say they want to shut down facility, they want to release detainees. You know, when I looked in, I looked at the files, you know, A lot of people in that facility are mandatory detention by federal statute. We couldn't release them if we wanted to. Because there are certain people, whether they're expedited removals, whether they're certain criminal, whether final order cases, by law, we have to detain them.” (07:01–07:07)

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