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Matt Salmon: “The current policy is not compassionate. It is not, because for every child that ends up in one of these facilities ...…”

On the recordJune 24, 2014
The current policy is not compassionate. It is not, because for every child that ends up in one of these facilities ... a child didn't make it.
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Matt Salmon
Arizona

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Salmon criticizes current immigration policy's impact on children and calls for change.

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