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Nanette Barragán: “Sending pregnant women back to these areas to be raped, killed, and abused is not a compassionate Nation.”

On the recordOctober 29, 2019
Sending pregnant women back to these areas to be raped, killed, and abused is not a compassionate Nation.
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Nanette Barragán
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing the U.S. policy of returning asylum seekers to dangerous areas in Mexico.

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