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Brad Lander: “There are in the country several hundred children who are…”

Featuring: Brad Lander, Democratic | New York City Comptroller

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Published | Video Starts at 06:29

Tomorrow where I'm going, there's actually three different buildings where this in lower Manhattan that have immigration courtrooms. The docket I'm doing tomorrow is a detained children's docket. I've done this one a few times. So There are in the country several hundred children who are separated from their parents and are being detained by the federal government, even though their parents are here and asking to be reunited. Purpose of it, Cruelty. In a few cases, they've used the kids as bait to get them to come to parents to come in. And then detained the parents. (06:29–06:45)

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