Tom Tiffany: “The gang [Tren de Aragua] was here in the United States…”

“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. And The gang [Tren de Aragua] was here in the United States, including right here in Wisconsin. The safest place to be able to remove someone who has a criminal history like that that should be removed from our states is to when they commit a crime …” (14:11–14:20)

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