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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “In the 10 years prior to that, there were no similar deaths, zero, of migrant children in U.S. custody.”

On the recordJuly 9, 2019
In the 10 years prior to that, there were no similar deaths, zero, of migrant children in U.S. custody.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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She contrasts current child deaths with the previous decade's record.

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