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Chris Smith: You know, some of the estimates put it at as many as 500,000 of our asylees in the United States were torture victims.

On the recordJuly 8, 2015
You know, some of the estimates put it at as many as 500,000 of our asylees in the United States were torture victims.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses the estimated number of torture victims among U.S. asylees.

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