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Immigrants in our prison systems. an illegal immigrant is twice as likely to commit a crime over a natural u.s. citizen. we are americans, we get big things done. if we had a zero tolerance program. we would execute that. we allowed illegal immigrants to under cut our country and it's destabilizing us all across america. i don't think we should stand for it anymore. it's a key campaign promise the president ran on and he's going to fulfill. >> charlie, that's intellectually dishonest. for you to state the figures of the illegal immigrants in the american prisons. >> there are more americans in...

>> you were too. >> i was too. i appreciate that. >> you were in a lot. >> say a word about why you went into creating a documentary like that about prison. >> well, i wanted to create a primer. it's not about prison but, as you well know, it's about the criminal justice system and ways in which we call the prison industrial complex now is warped and formed and deformed as the decades have gone on. so in that documentary we spend a hundred minutes and go through a hundred years of american history and really help people understand that prison isn't just a place where bad people go. that at thi...

>> i was too. i appreciate that. >> you were in a lot. >> say a word about why you went into creating a documentary like that about prison. >> it is not about prison, but as you well know, it's about the criminal justice system and the ways in which what we call the prison industrial complex now is warped and formed and deformed as the decades have gone on, so in the documentary, we spend 100 minutes going through 100 years of meamerican history helping people understand prison is not a bplace where bad people go, bt it's more than that, it's a system that needs to be kind of really looked at ...

Looking into -- i think we need to really dive deep into the information, like what happens inside these prisons, what we need to dispatch more people into these prison systems and really, really analyze what's going on and start to change around start to really talk about why is this happening? what can we do to prevent this in the future? we don't need to disburse these security guards that were in these institutions into other jails. but do our research and find better solutions to fix our broken system. >> i think when people sit down and watch this documentary and realize, that he was bro...

These different cultures and religions well integrated? >> i would say, ana, they're much more integrated in the united kingdom than other countries. let's take france, about 8% of the population is muslim, but up to 60% of the french prison population is muslim. that gives you a sense of how discriminated against the french muslim population is in france. and we've seen obviously a lot of terrorist attacks in france, similarly in belgium. many carried out about people who have gone through the french or belgium prison systems. i think the united kingdom has done a much better job overall of i...