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Norma Torres: “When a government decides that it is an important policy to rip away a baby that is nursing from its mother and that…”

On the recordJune 13, 2018
When a government decides that it is an important policy to rip away a baby that is nursing from its mother and that that is good policy, we have to challenge that.
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Norma Torres
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Torres criticizes the policy of separating nursing infants from their mothers at the border.

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