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Jamie Raskin: “It appears that this policy has, thankfully, been reversed after Congress and the American people rose up in an outcry…”

On the recordOctober 29, 2019
It appears that this policy has, thankfully, been reversed after Congress and the American people rose up in an outcry at the cold inhumanity on display in this policy.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin discusses the reversal of the deportation policy for critically ill children.

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