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Jerry Nadler: Deporting a parent without their child is literal kidnapping.

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
Deporting a parent without their child is literal kidnapping.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Nadler emphasizes the inhumanity of separating children from parents during deportation.

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