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Rashida Tlaib: “I ask my colleagues to see a drawing from one of the children in the cages, in the cells, up there, and I want you to…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2019
I ask my colleagues to see a drawing from one of the children in the cages, in the cells, up there, and I want you to not look away.
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Rashida Tlaib
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Tlaib urges her colleagues to acknowledge the suffering of children in detention.

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