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Mar 13, 2019, 11:11 am

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Originally Posted by Often1

The thread title is a bit misleading. Senators do not "tell" DHS to do anything. Rather, two Senators have written a letter asking DHS to discontinue the practice.

"Telling" would require a majority of the Senate and House and the President's signature. Most likely in either the DHS authorization or as a spending prohibition in the DHS appropriation for 2020.

2 US senators told DHS to discontinue this program. And the link quoted says that the senators tell DHS to discontinue this.

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