Patel said the change allows applications from people who have been victims of these crimes to be considered. Before the shift, Patel said, people who were "on either side" of crimes including "prostitution, bestiality and trafficking" were "automatically disqualified."

"Whose side of what, the bestiality?" Kennedy asked. "So you disqualified the animal?"

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"Why would you even get into bestiality?" Kennedy asked. He added: "If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal, but as the human, don't you think he ought to be disqualified?"

"If he voluntarily did it, sure," Patel said...