In 2016, Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI), Rep. Henry Hank Johnson (D-GA), Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Rep. Walter B. Jones (D-NC), Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-IN), and other House members sponsored H.R. 5426, the Justice for Servicemembers Act of 2016.
Cicilline notes the previous year's similar legislative efforts for servicemembers.
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the right to asylum is fundamentally under threat in the United States, which is a sad thing to say, given this Nation's history.
Let's speak with one voice and say America has an asylum system and individuals have a right to petition for it.
I abhor the abuse of children. I have been at the border, and I have held unaccompanied children--desperately sent, because they come from desperate circumstances.
The idea that we would stop asylum and we somehow have compared it to overflowing bathtubs.
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