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John Cornyn: “There are factors indicating the alien is not a threat to national security or to security or public safety and should…”

On the recordMarch 2, 2015
There are factors indicating the alien is not a threat to national security or to security or public safety and should not be, therefore, taken as an enforcement priority.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Cornyn questions the rationale for leniency towards certain criminal aliens under current policy.

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