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...affirmative action quotas or set-asides. "I've supported race-based preferences in the past," said Dole. "But over time, I realized that preferences created with the best of intentions were dividing America instead of bringing us, or bringing them together." The Republican nominee also distanced himself from a plank in the GOP platform that proposes a constitutional amendment to deny U.S. citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants. Dole said he would not support that part of the program because he had not authorized it himself. -->