And there's an underlying philosophy that it's OK to treat refugees in this fashion.
Jeff Merkley: “And there's an underlying philosophy that it's OK to treat refugees in this fashion.”
On the recordJuly 9, 2019
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Merkley criticizes the administration's policy towards refugees as fundamentally flawed.
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