Senator Jeanne Shaheen
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I don't think that's.
Most New Hampshire constituents that I talk to want a secure border.
They want to send back the criminals who are here illegally.
But what they don't want is people coming into their communities, disrupting their schools, disrupting their hospitals, disrupting their childcare centers.
So we need to pass some reforms.
We ought to be able to sit down like adults responsibly and get something done and stop the name calling.
I certainly support the Iranian people in their fight for freedom and human rights.
I think we need to be very thoughtful about how we express that support so that there are not false promises made to the Iranian people.
And so I have done a video message to the Iranian people, along with some of my colleagues in the Senate, to let them know that we're thinking about them and we're very concerned about the abuses that are going on there.
But I think we have to be, as I said, very careful about making promises that we might not be able to fulfill.
The verdict is not in yet on that.
Maduro, as we know, is an indicted criminal.
So there were some real concerns about the threat that he posed to the United States.
And that's the rationale that the administration used to
take him out of Venezuela, and put him in jail where he awaits trial.
Now, what happens next?
I think we need to, again, push the administration.
Replacing one dictator in Maduro for Delcy Rodriguez, who was his second in command, his henchman, I think is not the answer that I would like to see.
Obviously, the people of Venezuela would need to make a decision about who their next leader would be if there are free and fair elections.
I think Maria Karina Machado, the Nobel Prize winner who has risked so much, who has shown so much courage in helping to unite the opposition against Maduro, will be somebody who will be involved in those future democratic elections.