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On the recordJune 19, 2018
It's been going on for 60 years. Sixty years. Nobody's taken care of it. Nobody's had the political courage to take care of it. But we're going to take care of it. It's been going on for a long time.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

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Donald Trump claims that the issue of family separation has persisted for decades and asserts that he is the one to address it.

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