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Chris Smith: You can count on each of those people, I think, going back to persecution, not even the fear of it.

On the recordJuly 22, 2015
You can count on each of those people, I think, going back to persecution, not even the fear of it.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses the certainty of persecution for deported Falun Gong practitioners.

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