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On the recordMarch 27, 2017
Over 600 counties and cities have made the decision to resist the administration's efforts to conscript their local officials into a mass deportation force because experience in data show that local enforcement of Federal immigration law often makes communities less safe.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

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Swalwell discusses local resistance to federal immigration enforcement as a safety measure.

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