Veronica Escobar: “In my conversations with people inside detention, the vast…”

“$45 billion of our tax dollars in that bill were placed into that piece of legislation to rapidly grow immigration detention in order to move 1 million people a year out of the United States. Now, mind you, In my conversations with people inside detention, the vast majority of people I've spoken to were not undocumented immigrants. They were documented immigrants with work permits who entered the country legally with no criminal record. Camp East Montana, $1.24 billion. These warehouses were purchased, taken off the tax rolls for 122 million.” (27:39–27:48)

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