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Maggie Hassan: “That is, frankly, not who we are as a country, and it is not what the United States should become.”

On the recordSeptember 17, 2018
That is, frankly, not who we are as a country, and it is not what the United States should become.
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Maggie Hassan
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Hassan opposes the indefinite detention of children by the Federal Government.

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