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On the recordJuly 15, 2019
The president now has one distraction at the border where he thought immigration was going to be his selling tickets for victory in 2020. Now, he sees the American people appalled by the way children are being treated and just plain human beings are being treated at the border.
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Sheila Jackson Lee
Democratic · Texas

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Sheila Jackson Lee critiques the president's handling of immigration and the public's reaction to the treatment of children at the border.

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