On the recordMarch 16, 2021
A crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that family to deter future migration. That, to me, is a humanitarian crisis.
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msnbc.comAlejandro Mayorkas: “A crisis is when a nation is willing to rip a 9-year-old child out of the hands of his or her parent and separate that…”
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Mayorkas defines what constitutes a humanitarian crisis in the context of immigration.
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