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Joaquin Castro, other lawmakers want answers about pregnant migrant teens held in Texas

The Democratic congressman from San Antonio says holding the young women in Texas violates their right to reproductive healthcare access.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, and 47 other congressional Democrats sent a letter to Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. condemning the Trump administration’s housing of pregnant migrant minors in Texas — a state where abortion is banned. In the letter, dated April 30, Castro and the others maintain that exclusively […]

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