Former immigration commissioner Doris Meissner says there's been no political discussion of its newest ideas.

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Ms. DORIS MEISSNER (Former Commissioner, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service): There is more detail in this than we've ever seen before, from the administration.

NPR: Immigration Plan Puts Price on Visa

Doris Meissner, a former commissioner of the federal agency once known as the US Immigration and Naturalization Service who now is at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, saw little connection between the brothers' Chechen heritage and the Senate's immigration law.

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