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On the recordJune 12, 2024
putting a tent city in Floyd Bennett Field was a terrible idea, perhaps even inhumane.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks criticized the plan for a migrant camp at Floyd Bennett Field.

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