On the recordJanuary 25, 2017
I'm not going to put millions of dollars in federal aid in jeopardy simply because we want the federal government to reimburse us for maintaining these prisoners.
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transcripts.cnn.comI'm not going to put millions of dollars in federal aid in jeopardy simply because we want the federal government to reimburse us for maintaining these prisoners.
Gimenez explains his decision to comply with federal immigration requests to avoid losing federal funding.
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