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Tom Harkin: “The threats of the children, the children are not threats.”

On the recordJuly 9, 2014
The threats of the children, the children are not threats.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Clarifies that children fleeing violence are not a threat but victims.

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