Cory Booker pledges to ‘virtually eliminate’ immigrant detention centers

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Cory Booker promised to overhaul the U.S. immigration system and all but end the detention of illegal immigrants in a new 2020 campaign proposal.

The New Jersey senator and Democratic presidential candidate released his proposal for reforming the U.S. immigration system on Tuesday. The proposal would stop federal law enforcement officers from detaining illegal immigrants in most cases unless the migrant threatened public safety, according to the plan.

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