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On the recordJuly 9, 2014
Congress must immediately increase funding to ORR for fiscal year 2014 so that the influx of children at the border is not paid for by the refugees from Iraq, Syria, Eritrea, Sudan, and Ukraine and elsewhere who have been generously offered protection by the United States.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Calls for increased funding to support migrant children without compromising aid to other refugees.

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