These families need trauma support, caseworkers, clean water, adequate and nutritious food.
Ayanna Pressley: “These families need trauma support, caseworkers, clean water, adequate and nutritious food.”
On the recordJuly 11, 2019
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Pressley outlines the essential needs of families in detention that are currently unmet.
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