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On the recordSeptember 25, 2019
How, one might ask, did these blatant violations of detention standards and, for that matter, human decency, continue under ICE's watch?
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson questions how ICE allowed serious violations to persist.

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