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On the recordJuly 24, 2019
The fact that the administration is hostile to all legislative action which doesn't evince a terrible hostility to immigrants and to people, to refugees who need asylum status is our problem, but it is not our fault.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler criticizes the administration's stance on immigration legislation.

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