Greg Casar: “It's Progressive Caucus members that are going to make sure…”

“You know, it was progressives in the Progressive Caucus that were out there on gay marriage before it was a popular issue. It's going to be. It's Progressive Caucus members that are going to make sure that you'll be first out there to say if somebody's escaping from war and getting killed, that we've got to figure out that our country actually helps support people in that situation. and doesn't repeat our mistakes from World War II where we turned away entire ships of Jewish refugees just to go back to the Holocaust camps, somebody's got to do that.” (15:58–16:14)

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