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On the recordNovember 18, 2010
It's just inexplicable. And if it is the result of partisan politics, these children are being used as partisan pawns for more controversial immigration measures we suspect and that's simply wrong.
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Jeff Fortenberry
Republican · Nebraska

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Fortenberry criticizes the use of Haitian orphans as political pawns in the context of immigration legislation.

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