07/26/2012
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"Executive departments and agencies shall develop transparent, merit-based selection criteria that will guide their available discretion..."
"We know that you are a great civilization, and your accomplishments have earned the respect of the United States and the world."
"I direct you to take the necessary steps to implement for eligible Liberians a deferral of enforced departure from the United States for 12 months from March 31, 2009."
"Let us remember the words that were written by the poet Saadi so many years ago: 'The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence.'"