Rosie Perez
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It's just, it's too much.
I mean, I think that what people feel, when you look at the numbers just on the Trump side, the promise is to remove the worst of the worst.
The worst of the worst are primarily in jail.
They're adjudicated criminals.
By and large, the people they're targeting at preschools and at landscaping jobs and at schools and in hospitals are not people who've committed any crimes, let alone violent crimes.
And I think the people on the streets, and Renee Nicole Goode was blowing a whistle for the people sort of targeting...
people who are parts of our communities.
But this issue of going into schools and using a five-year-old as bait and going into hospitals and people afraid to take their severely ill children to the hospital because they're afraid they'll get separated, either the child deported or the mother deported, or, you know, does feel like an effort to break the fabric of our society.
Yeah.
I think when I saw the five-year-old... Liam.
That's what broke me.
That's when the tears came.
Because I have a grandson.
I couldn't imagine the fear that little kid was going through.
That blank stare of shock that he displayed, that's what broke me.
But I think that it really started when...
actors were calling me, asking me to stand up.
And I said, well, are you going to stand up too?
No, I can't because I have a deal in place.
And I go, I understand.