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Sonia Sotomayor: “Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.”

On the recordJuly 3, 2026
Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York

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Dissenting in a Supreme Court ruling on immigration.

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