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Veronica Escobar: “The city of Socorro has passed a moratorium on any DHS…”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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Rep. Escobar Questions Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons at House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 05:24

Those three warehouses are going to house 8,500 human beings. Those structures are meant to hold goods. Those structures are meant to hold things, not people. And The city of Socorro has passed a moratorium on any DHS facilities. They do not have the water infrastructure, the wastewater infrastructure, the emergency services infrastructure. They don't have enough for their own community. (05:24–05:29)

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Asserts that Socorro's city council has enacted a moratorium against DHS facilities.

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