Tom Tiffany: “Many of these people had violent criminal records.”

“Federal law enforcement has removed people who have been here illegally. They've removed them from their state and they've been returned to their home countries because remember Many of these people had violent criminal records. I mean we have hundreds of thousands of people that came into the country over the previous four years that were let out of places like the jails in Venezuela where they emptied their prisons.” (13:55–13:59)

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