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Summer Lee: “Frankly, I think paperwork, which is part of the problem of a very large department, had her moving from Houston, all…”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2020
Frankly, I think paperwork, which is part of the problem of a very large department, had her moving from Houston, all the way to Chicago.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania
Source
msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the bureaucratic issues that nearly led to the deportation of Pauline Binam.

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