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Gary Peters: “But I am not sure how the fact that you give folks a choice between being separated from their children or being…”

On the recordNovember 14, 2018
But I am not sure how the fact that you give folks a choice between being separated from their children or being detained, and then asking them to waive the 20-day period where they children cannot stay in detention, how that is going to accelerate that.
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Peters questions the effectiveness of a policy regarding family separation and detention.

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