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Jeff Sessions: “It is quite different, as I think Mr. Kirsanow points out, to demand your lawful rights as an American and to ask…”

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
It is quite different, as I think Mr. Kirsanow points out, to demand your lawful rights as an American and to ask for--insist that civil rights apply to those who enter the country unlawfully to have these benefits.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions distinguishes between lawful American rights and demands for rights by unlawful entrants.

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