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Cory Booker: “Life is so bad that people are willing then to take some of the most dangerous journeys imaginable to escape and try to…”

On the recordApril 9, 2018
Life is so bad that people are willing then to take some of the most dangerous journeys imaginable to escape and try to come to the United States.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker addresses the dire conditions driving migration to the U.S.

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