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Tim Kaine: “More than 20 boats have been attacked.”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Strikes against boats that they believe to be part of the drug trade, but with somewhat limited evidence about whether that is in fact the case with these strikes. More than 20 boats have been attacked. More than 80 people have been killed. In at least two instances, there were survivors who, instead of being arrested if they were narco traffickers, were instead repatriated back to Colombia and Ecuador and. (00:18–00:21)

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Asserts that more than 20 boats have been attacked in the Caribbean and Pacific.

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