If we set that precedent, if we decide the president is above the law, then we will no longer live in a democracy. We will live in a dictatorship trading the values of Madison for the values of Moscow.
Cicilline warns that allowing the President to act above the law could lead to a dictatorship.
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To export our responsibility or our privilege really of being this great humanitarian force in the world is a terrible message.
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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.
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