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Steve Cohen: “Under the President's unilateral action, more people would be allowed to essentially cut in line for work authorization…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2016
Under the President's unilateral action, more people would be allowed to essentially cut in line for work authorization than are currently--and legally--waiting in line for such authorization, because the resources that would normally be devoted to processing legal applicants would be diverted to processing illegal applicants. That's a shocking abuse of executive power.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen criticizes the President's actions on work authorization as an abuse of power.

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