Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refug…

Jimmy Carter
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen. ✨ United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). Jimmy Carter
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