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On the recordJune 12, 2017
Eliminating the Presidentially-directed, Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance (ERMA) account and cutting the Migration and Refugee Assistance (MRA) are contradictory to the basic humanitarianism manifested by the Statue of Liberty.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham criticizes cuts to refugee assistance as un-American and harmful.

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