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Gary Peters: “But in many cases that did not happen, and it certainly appears that there was not any planning done on how to reunite…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2018
But in many cases that did not happen, and it certainly appears that there was not any planning done on how to reunite families as we went through that.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters highlights the lack of planning for family reunification during separations.

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