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On the recordNovember 18, 2019
Blocking the asylum process for vulnerable people and risking their lives by putting them in harm's way does not make us any safer; it just makes us less than the America we have held ourselves out to be.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Thompson criticizes the impact of the Remain-in-Mexico policy on asylum seekers.

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