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Jeff Sessions: “It hasn't been good. And the American people don't like the idea that we're separating families. We never really…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2018
It hasn't been good. And the American people don't like the idea that we're separating families. We never really intended to do that.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Jeff Sessions acknowledges public discontent with family separations but claims it was not the intention.

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