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Kathleen Rice: “The Remain-in-Mexico policy is a reprehensible step backwards, and a continuation of this administration's abandonment…”

On the recordNovember 18, 2019
The Remain-in-Mexico policy is a reprehensible step backwards, and a continuation of this administration's abandonment of our Nation's longstanding--and bipartisan--tradition of protecting asylum seekers and refugees.
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Kathleen Rice
Democratic · New York

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Criticism of the Remain-in-Mexico policy as a violation of asylum traditions.

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