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Eliot Engel: “Children to this day still remain apart from their parents. That has to change.”

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
Children to this day still remain apart from their parents. That has to change.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Criticism of family separation policies affecting immigrant children.

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