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Jerry Nadler: “Law enforcement involves enforcing those laws that provide protection from persecution, too, and we have an obligation…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2015
Law enforcement involves enforcing those laws that provide protection from persecution, too, and we have an obligation to make sure that we don't undermine that at our borders or at our friends' borders.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler emphasizes the importance of protecting refugees from persecution.

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