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Jamie Raskin: “A lot of my constituents are baffled why, at a moment when the U.S. Government is separating thousands of children and…”

On the recordJune 18, 2018
A lot of my constituents are baffled why, at a moment when the U.S. Government is separating thousands of children and parents at the border in a way that threatens to make us an international pariah, the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee are doing nothing about this scandalous policy.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Raskin criticizes Congress for not addressing family separations at the border.

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