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Joe Biden's allies in Congress are calling on him to revoke the visa of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, after his supporters attacked the country's capital while he was in Florida:

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers, including some of the top members of the House foreign affairs committee, sent a letter to Joe Biden on Thursday demanding former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro's diplomatic visa be canceled in the wake of the rampage in Brazil's capital by his supporters.