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Rosa DeLauro: “We are--using children as bait for immigration enforcement. It is alarming and cruel. And under no circumstances is it…”

On the recordJuly 23, 2019
We are--using children as bait for immigration enforcement. It is alarming and cruel. And under no circumstances is it justified.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

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Criticism of using children in immigration enforcement as cruel and unjustifiable.

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