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On the recordJune 12, 2024
The rhetoric that you are hearing here on the dais could be a hearing from 1850, because this is the same argument that people have been making about immigration.
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

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Stansbury draws parallels between historical and current immigration debates.

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