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Eliot Engel: “If I were living in a place where gun battles were leaving scores of people dead, and previously safe streets were now…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
If I were living in a place where gun battles were leaving scores of people dead, and previously safe streets were now hideouts for thugs and criminals, I would feel a sense of terror, too.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Expresses empathy for the terror faced by people in Mexico due to violence.

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