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Jeff Sessions: “By creating a new and a legally tenuous, I suggest, definition of 'permanent partnership,' we would be expanding the…”

On the recordJune 2, 2009
By creating a new and a legally tenuous, I suggest, definition of 'permanent partnership,' we would be expanding the avenue for fraud and abuse.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions warns that the new definition could lead to immigration fraud.

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