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Janice Schakowsky: They see this, I see this as State-sponsored child abuse, I would say even State-sponsored kidnapping, children being…

On the recordMarch 11, 2019
They see this, I see this as State-sponsored child abuse, I would say even State-sponsored kidnapping, children being taken away from their parents, hundreds, maybe thousands of children.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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Schakowsky criticizes the separation of children from parents as abusive.

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