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Mazie Hirono: “There is some kind of a directive that our agencies…”

Featuring: Mazie Hirono, Democratic | U.S. Senate Hawaii

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What a Bizarre Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 06:30

Just about anybody who is in the welfare program can be accused of welfare fraud. See, this really opens up the way that people can be sought to be denaturalized. And There is some kind of a directive that our agencies, citizenship and naturalization agencies are supposed to come up with a 1 to 200 cases of denaturalization every month. They're not talking about going after terrorists 100 to 200 every month. No, they're talking about going after the people that they could accuse of a whole bunch of other things. (06:30–06:45)

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Asserts that there is a directive for agencies to pursue 100 to 200 denaturalization cases monthly.

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