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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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