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David Cicilline: “My question is the propriety and the damage you are doing to a three-year-old child, to ask them to make that decision…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
My question is the propriety and the damage you are doing to a three-year-old child, to ask them to make that decision, to pick a parent.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Cicilline questions the ethics of involving children in immigration decisions.

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