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Elizabeth Warren: “This was a policy that was designed to traumatize children and families as a way of scaring them away from the border.”

On the recordJuly 18, 2018
This was a policy that was designed to traumatize children and families as a way of scaring them away from the border.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticized the policy of family separation as intentionally harmful.

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