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Stacey Abrams: “Congress can stop this right now. It happened under the…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Stacey Abrams SPEAKS UP for children detained in Dilley, Texas, and nationwide

Published | Video Starts at 06:32

And so if you go to readthemhome.org you can join us in this effort. We want folks to read books, record yourself reading a children's story, post it online, and use the hashtag readthemhome because Congress can stop this right now. It happened under the Biden administration. It happened under the Obama administration. We can stop family detention. We just have to believe it's wrong to put parents and children in prison camps. And if that's a truth that you can hold, you can fight back against authoritarianism today. (06:32–06:39)

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Asserts that Congress has the power to stop family detention, which has occurred under multiple administrations.

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