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Tillis spoke in a floor speech today about an Afghan man who served as an interpreter for the U.S. military and was detained recently at an immigration hearing.

“It just disturbs me that we’ve got somebody in detention who served — by all accounts admirably — alongside American servicemen, probably saved their lives,” Tillis said.

“All I’m trying to say is folks, I want you to obey our laws, and for the majority of times, if you come to this country illegally, then I want you to potentially be deported, but you can’t cast everybody in that same light,” Tillis said.

He spoke at length about the man, who he said did not make it to Kabul in time to catch a flight out of Afghanistan when the U.S. military was withdrawing. Fearing for his life in Afghanistan, the man fled to Iran before he was granted a humanitarian visa in Brazil.

“He decided to flee from Afghanistan to Iran, which is not a particularly friendly territory,” Tillis said on the Senate floor. “Think about that — willing to go to Iran because it’s a safer place to be than Afghanistan.”

From Brazil, Tillis said, the man came illegally to the United States, where he was granted parole and tried to apply for a special immigrant visa.

“I think we owe it to this person to get him out of detention and into some status to determine what country he should go to,” Tillis concluded. “I’m not necessarily arguing that he should stay in the United States, but I am arguing that he shouldn’t be in detention in California.”

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