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Bill Keating: “There is a definite contradiction with sending these people--many of them have been here for years legally to escape…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
There is a definite contradiction with sending these people--many of them have been here for years legally to escape that violence--sending them back because now it is safer, yet at the same time the administration is saying what an enormous threat it now is becoming.
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Bill Keating
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Keating highlights contradictions in U.S. policy regarding TPS and safety in sending people back.

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