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Nancy Mace: “I just do not understand anyone who says that refugees do not contribute to the United States.”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2019
I just do not understand anyone who says that refugees do not contribute to the United States.
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Nancy Mace
Republican · South Carolina

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Mace defends the positive contributions of refugees to the U.S.

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