Bennie Thompson actually said...

No other administration has carried out a policy that deliberately separates migrant families--in some instances by default--when they reach the border at the scale we have seen over the past 2 years.

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Thompson criticizes the Trump administration's family separation policy at the border.

03/25/2019

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