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Tom Carper: “What I have come to understand is that what happens along our borders is only a symptom of the problem.”

On the recordJune 8, 2014
What I have come to understand is that what happens along our borders is only a symptom of the problem.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes that border issues are symptoms of deeper problems.

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