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Chris Smith: “I think without it we'll be back here next year and the year after that and the year after that talking about maybe a…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2016
I think without it we'll be back here next year and the year after that and the year after that talking about maybe a diminishing number of cases from countries but only because individual children will have aged-out or perhaps the parents just exhausted financially, emotionally, and physically from this trauma; I don't know how any of these parents can endure this.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith emphasizes the urgency of addressing ongoing cases to prevent diminishing numbers of children affected.

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