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Rosa DeLauro: “Homestead is not a home. It's an industrial line for the processing of mass numbers of children.”

On the recordJuly 23, 2019
Homestead is not a home. It's an industrial line for the processing of mass numbers of children.
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Rosa DeLauro
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

DeLauro describes the Homestead facility as inadequate for children's needs.

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