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On the recordJuly 31, 2026
As awful as this Administration’s anti-immigrant mass detention and deportation agenda is, it still has a legal responsibility to ensure the people in detention are treated humanely.
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Alex Padilla
Democratic · California

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Remarks on ICE detention conditions

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