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Dianne Feinstein: “Well, that is exactly right. The chairwoman's supplemental does that. That is really what makes the difference for the…”

On the recordJuly 30, 2014
Well, that is exactly right. The chairwoman's supplemental does that. That is really what makes the difference for the child. If a child can't speak the language and if a child is held in a jail cell and if a child is shackled and handcuffed before a judge, and a child has nobody to help them and no one they know in this country, what can they do except cry? That is what I saw directly myself, and that is what sort of awakened me then to a problem, which was just 5,000 a year in the start of this. Now we are at 54,000, and probably 90,000 before the end of the year.
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California
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Jul 30, 2014

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