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On the recordAugust 15, 2025
They’ve paid their debt, and I’ll be damned if I let them be deported to a country where they don’t know a soul.
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Kathleen Hochul
Democratic · New York

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Hochul defends her decision to pardon migrants with criminal histories.

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