Madam Chairman. I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. and I would ask the chairman to consider one specific thing about one very discrete narrow part of the managers amendment. In the fantasy world we are in. should this bill ever actually become a law. the issue on the passport violations that the gentleman from Michigan just spoke to. there are limited situations where someone that you and I and everyone around would agree truly was a refugee. with a wellfounded fear of persecution. escaping from a politically repressive regime took advantage of some kind of falsified and altered passport in order to escape. The only question I have. as we look at the managers amendment now. there should be some discretion here in the context of either criminalizing or deportation to allow a situation where that was the purpose. the person met the full test of a refugee and that that not become a basis for deporting him or her back to the regime or incarcerating that person or charging them with a criminal offense.
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