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On the recordJune 20, 2018
What the President is proposing is equivalent of internment camps during World War II we locked up Japanese, American families together.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Merkley compares Trump's proposed policies to historical internment camps, expressing concern over the treatment of families seeking asylum.

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