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Rosa DeLauro: If senior officials at HHS didn't push back on Homeland Security, despite warnings from ORR career officials, then they…

On the recordMarch 12, 2019
If senior officials at HHS didn't push back on Homeland Security, despite warnings from ORR career officials, then they were complicit in what was an illegal, immoral family separation.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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DeLauro criticizes HHS officials for not opposing family separations.

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