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Ayanna Pressley: Now that USCIS has been publicly shamed into processing the deferred action request that you had originally denied.

On the recordSeptember 10, 2019
Now that USCIS has been publicly shamed into processing the deferred action request that you had originally denied.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley criticizes USCIS for initially denying deferred action requests.

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