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John McCain, Jon Kyl demand apology from Michael Posner

By KASIE HUNT | 5/18/10 6:52 PM EDT
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Michael Posner, the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, is shown.

Michael Posner (shown), the assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, compared Arizona's immigration law to human rights abuses in China.

Arizona’s two senators are demanding that a top State Department official apologize for comparing the state’s new immigration law with human rights abuses in China.

“As the [official] in charge of the Bureau of Democracy and Human Rights, your remarks are particularly offensive,â€