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Lucille Roybal-Allard: it just seems to me that a better use of costly detentions would actually be to put more resources into having these…

On the recordMarch 16, 2015
it just seems to me that a better use of costly detentions would actually be to put more resources into having these cases more quickly adjudicated.
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Lucille Roybal-Allard
California

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Roybal-Allard advocates for reallocating detention resources to expedite case adjudication.

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