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Bennie Thompson: “How, one might ask, did these blatant violations of detention standards and, for that matter, human decency, continue…”

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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