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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “So we, as members of the United Nations, signed on into an international human rights agreement, saying very clearly…”

On the recordJuly 11, 2019
So we, as members of the United Nations, signed on into an international human rights agreement, saying very clearly that family separation is a violation of international human rights, and then we pursued a policy that violates human rights.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York

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Ocasio-Cortez highlights the contradiction between U.S. policy and international human rights agreements.

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