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Patrick Leahy: “That really does not sound like amnesty.”

On the recordJune 27, 2011
That really does not sound like amnesty.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy comments on the treatment of DREAM Act beneficiaries in relation to military service.

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