Amy McGrath
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It was a prison.
And the problem was that, you know, people were sort of held indefinitely there.
But there were no kids there at that time.
Now we're talking about kids.
Yeah.
The other aspect of this, Denver, is the fact that a lot of these prisons, they're private.
So there's an incentive there to make money.
And some of this stuff started actually during the Obama administration to hold the influx of families crossing the border.
Some of these were created.
Joe Biden, you know, during the first Trump administration, there was the family separation issues that were just heinous.
And then Biden came into power and basically said,
you know holding families america shouldn't be in the business of detaining children so that policy was stopped and of course now trump is resuming the detention of kids i also worry denver that this isn't going to break through the same way the family separations thing broke through during trump 1.0 because there's so much going on and people people are just you know that we're it's
And I hope you're right that there is accountability at some point.
You know, I've called for the secretary of Homeland Security to be impeached.
I think she needs to be out of there that, you know, ICE needs to be stopped.
This is this is crazy.
And the other thing is there's like a measles outbreak now in some of these detention centers.
I mean, this is crazy, especially for these kids.
Well, I also want to ask you about Cuba because I have talked to a number of foreign policy people, many people who don't really love this administration but are always trying to, like โ
figure out, hey, maybe Trump does know what he's doing.