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Gwen Moore: “Yesenia Ruano, who was a beloved Milwaukee public school…”

Featuring: Gwen Moore, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 4

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People who bought into the notion that we needed to do massive deportations, thought gang members were going to be rounded up. Instead, we find people like our beloved Yesenia Ruano, who was a beloved Milwaukee public school educator, assistant educator was here with her American board twice daughters. They deported her. And of course the judge eventually found that she should be returned. But that didn't stop the separation, the anxiety, the expense, the gofundmes, all of the trouble that we're putting innocent people through. (01:05–01:22)

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