Ayanna Pressley: “This administration's policies, including but certainly not…”

“Though I represent the Massachusetts seventh, one through line has remained true in my travels and conversations from Massachusetts to Minnesota to Illinois to Texas. And it is the devastating impacts of Trump's terror campaign on our nation's children. This administration's policies, including but certainly not limited to Operation Metro Surge, in my opinion, I would characterize as child abuse, child neglect and inflicting childhood trauma. We are experiencing in real time the compounded adultifying of our children, where increasingly so a childhood is a privilege instead of a right.” (00:40–00:57)

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