On the recordMarch 5, 2019
There is nothing humane about a system that contemplates what we see today, that contemplates 60,000 children coming across the border unaccompanied...
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Kirstjen Nielsen
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congress.govKirstjen Nielsen: “There is nothing humane about a system that contemplates what we see today, that contemplates 60,000 children coming…”
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Nielsen discusses the inhumanity of the current immigration system and its impact on children.
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