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Claire McCaskill: “So if you are a mother in those countries and you have a coyote telling you that you can keep your child safe, I just…”

On the recordApril 28, 2015
So if you are a mother in those countries and you have a coyote telling you that you can keep your child safe, I just think it is important that that go on the record, because this is not about people sitting around and making a political calculation in these countries. This is about mothers trying to save children. Correct?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizes the desperation of mothers in Central America regarding child safety.

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