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Summer Lee: “This is not a National security crisis. This is a humanitarian crisis.”

On the recordJuly 2, 2014
This is not a National security crisis. This is a humanitarian crisis.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Jackson Lee emphasizes the humanitarian nature of the situation at the border.

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