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Melanie Stansbury: It is truly a humanitarian crisis, and it is a crisis that has been manufactured, reproduced over and over again.

On the recordFebruary 6, 2023
It is truly a humanitarian crisis, and it is a crisis that has been manufactured, reproduced over and over again.
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

Editor's note · Context

Stansbury emphasizes the border situation as a humanitarian crisis caused by inaction on immigration reform.

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