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Mike Lee: “And yet this program that we are dealing with here would allow an alien to get 'advance parole' and ultimately a green…”

On the recordDecember 9, 2014
And yet this program that we are dealing with here would allow an alien to get 'advance parole' and ultimately a green card, ultimately potentially citizenship so long as that person has a meeting with a client in Toronto, rather than Tulsa.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee critiques the program for potentially allowing citizenship through inadequate reasons.

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