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On the recordSeptember 10, 2019
whatever inconvenience you may have experienced certainly pales in comparison to the trauma and the fear and the inconvenience your medical deferred action denial letters have imposed on immigrant children and families.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley highlights the serious impact of deferred action denial on immigrant families.

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