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On the recordMarch 25, 2019
From a medical perspective, if you wanted to purposely design a policy to be cruel to hurt children, you would design it to look a lot like this administration's family separation policy.
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Lauren Underwood
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Underwood criticizes the administration's family separation policy as harmful to children's health.

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