Texas's "baby jail bill" could put child immigrants in private prisons.
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00:00SB 1018, also known as a baby jails bill.
00:11This bill will license federal immigration child detention centers as child care facilities.
00:23The idea that the state would condone locking up children is unconscionable.
00:30We're not in the business of selling a product or a good, we're actually in the business of helping people.
00:38Call it what you may, but this is substantially a vendor bill in favor of one company,
00:43rather than the interests of these children that need our help.
00:55A lot of these people, probably two million, it could even be three million,
00:59we're getting them out of our country or we're going to incarcerate.
01:09That's not the Texas I know, and that's why I'm going to have to vote against your bill.