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Summer Lee: we are confronted with a humanitarian crisis resulting from the alarming scale of violence and economic desperation in…

On the recordJuly 28, 2014
we are confronted with a humanitarian crisis resulting from the alarming scale of violence and economic desperation in three Central American countries.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Describing the situation of unaccompanied children as a humanitarian crisis.

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