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Joseph Biden
@josephbiden· Democratic · DE· Feb 6, 2025

'We need to create lawful pathways for asylum seekers.'

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@alexandriaocasiocortez· Democratic · NY· Feb 6, 2025

Understand the consequences of what this means because for America to not accept immigrants is the definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

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Kathleen Hochul
@kathleenhochul· Democratic · NY· Feb 6, 2025

ICE was only going after 'people who committed crimes, serious offenders, and those are exactly the people we want removed from the state of New York.'

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Feb 4, 2025

Our DHS enforcement officers have arrested thousands of dangerous criminal aliens. Arrests in just the last few days include convicted murders, rapists, child abusers, drug traffickers, MS-13 gang members, cartel members. Under President Trump, America is no longer a safe haven for violent criminals.

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Isaac Jordan
@isaacjordan· Republican · OH· Sep 10, 2024

The criminals are coming through. Poor Colorado. That violent gang out of Venezuela.

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Bert Miller
@bertmiller· Republican · ID· Feb 13, 2024

The spike is during your administration. You own this. It is because of the border policies.

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Scott DesJarlais
@scottdesjarlais· Republican · TN· Feb 13, 2024

With the record influx of illegal crossings at the southern border, I was wondering what steps you are taking to mitigate potential strain on the SNAP program.

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Bert Miller
@bertmiller· Republican · ID· Feb 13, 2024

The Biden administration has lost 85,000 children, and actually I was recently at the border and the Border Patrol suggested that it was over 100,000.

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Bert Miller
@bertmiller· Republican · ID· Feb 13, 2024

You are allowing cartels to traffic children into our country and doing nothing to stop them, and I would not give you a penny.

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Scott DesJarlais
@scottdesjarlais· Republican · TN· Feb 13, 2024

We have 42 million people on SNAP now. We have had roughly ten million crossing over, most of them seeking asylum.

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Michelle Steel
@michellesteel· Republican · CA· Sep 18, 2023

Mr. Gonzalez, my own parents fled from North Korea from Communism, and their stories have impacted me forever.

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Mitch McConnell
@mitchmcconnell· Republican · KY· Oct 2, 2022

Stay focused on the issues that we think matter most to voters, the economy, immigration, crime.

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Joseph Biden
@josephbiden· Democratic · DE· Aug 25, 2021

The Court upheld a lower court orders -- lower court`s order that the Biden administration against its own wishes and policies must essentially restart from scratch a discontinued Trump administration immigration policy that had caused widespread misery and harm for thousands of asylum seekers.

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Bernie Sanders
@berniesanders· Independent · VT· Aug 16, 2020

He will stop the demonization of immigrants, the coddling of white nationalists, the racist dog whistling, the religious bigotry, and the ugly attacks on women.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· May 27, 2019

On the issue of immigration, he has also defied who we are morally and who we say we are to the world.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· May 27, 2019

This is a nation founded by immigrants, and we cannot allow fear-mongering to define our immigration policies.

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Kamala Harris
@kamalaharris· Democratic · CA· May 27, 2019

We are a nation founded by immigrants, and we cannot allow fear-mongering to define our immigration policies.

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