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Eliot Engel: “The ugly language calling Mexicans drug dealers and rapists, the dehumanizing language about immigrants and…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
The ugly language calling Mexicans drug dealers and rapists, the dehumanizing language about immigrants and characterization of Haiti and El Salvador using the word I won't repeat.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Criticism of the President's derogatory remarks about Mexico and immigrants.

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