Beto O'Rourke – O’Rourke on point with claim on U.S. incarcerating migrant children

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Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has been vocal about his opposition to detaining unaccompanied migrant children crossing the nation’s southern border.  The El Paso native and former congressman has frequently made visits to migrant detention camps and held rallies calling for them to be shut down. "We are incarcerating more children than any time in America’s history since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II," O’Rourke said at a Houston rally on June 29, 2019.  He repeated the claim July 11, 2019 at the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Milwaukee. O’Rourke was among eight Democratic presidential contenders, …

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