Veronica Escobar: “There are folks inside the facility who have recently been…”

“We heard Senator John Cornyn say, oh, you know, this is going to be people who don't need access to due process because they are on final removal orders. Nope, not true. In fact, There are folks inside the facility who have recently been apprehended, maybe even here at the border, or apprehended as far away as Miami or as far away as LA in enforcement operations that ICE is conducting inside the US. as we have learned through national media and through some of the statistics. Statistics. Those folks, some of them have been here for 20 years working in agriculture, you know, essentially part of the United States workforce in meatpacking plants in other areas.” (08:50–09:11)

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