Julian Castro: Housing Migrants in Guantanamo ‘Makes No Sense, It’s Wasting Taxpayer Dollars’

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CASTRO: "And here's the through line, Alex, is just like he put out Trump. Put out this number. If we’re going to do mass deportations and get millions of people and they’re finding that that’s actually not feasible, that’s not practical either with the funding or with the personnel in the federal government right now. That’s also not practical or feasible at guantanamo that, as I understand, can only house a few hundred people right now. And so they’re going to have to try and do these makeshift facilities. But even that is not going to be enough. If 30,000 people is the number that you’re trying to get there, it makes no sense. It’s wasting taxpayer dollars. It’s going to turn out to be cruel for the people who are there. And also going to, I think, wrap in people that are not criminals. And so all around it’s incompetence. It’s cruelty, it’s waste of dollars. It’s everything that that voters should be upset about. And I think they are going to be upset about this as the truth about--"