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Bill Keating: “These people from the early, early ages, 8, 9 years old…”

Featuring: Bill Keating, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 9th Congressional District

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'Obvious Contradiction': Keating Grills Trump Official Over Haiti TPS Cancelling Amid Travel Warning

Published | Video Starts at 04:02

So why is not this not a good thing? They're here, we're getting helped. They're here because they were in danger. Many of them were targeted. And as the colonel knows, These people from the early, early ages, 8, 9 years old, many of them are already being pressured into gang activities. and future gang activities. So how can we take a win, win situation where we're helping people, helping the United States, helping our economy and helping Haitians because that money is coming back to help support families. (04:02–04:13)

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Asserts that children in Haiti are pressured into gang activities from a young age.

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