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David Cicilline: “Asking a three-year-old child to choose between their parents, not knowing if they will ever see one again, is…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
Asking a three-year-old child to choose between their parents, not knowing if they will ever see one again, is unconscionable and traumatic to a child.
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David Cicilline
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Cicilline criticized the trauma caused by family separations at the border.

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