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Ayanna Pressley: “This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.”

On the recordApril 3, 2025
This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticized ICE's failure to provide medication to Öztürk.

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