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Exploring the debate over ‘sanctuary cities’

May 11, 2017

Elizabeth Price Foley of Florida International University and Cristina Rodriguez of Yale University discuss President Trump's executive order on immigration and how Congress could respond to sanctuary cities going forward.

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