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On the recordOctober 29, 2019
When you announced this rule you were asked whether it was consistent with the poem under the Statue of Liberty, which reads, quote, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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Wasserman Schultz questions the alignment of a new rule with the Statue of Liberty's message.

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