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For anybody whose family, you know, probably came from somewhere else a few generations to say, OK, but now we're going to put up the drawbridge and not let anybody else in, I don't think that's in accord with the values of America.
Tim Kaine
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Tim Kaine
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 26
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