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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

I have actually visited in those countries with those embassies. There are some very fine folks that are working there...

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

We have to make housing first. It is the first solution for all the things you are talking about today.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

To me that is an illustration of the capacity and awareness of understanding the complexity of building at each reservation a system that is friendly to lending.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

the spark, the pull, was DACA, that when DACA went through, the coyotes in Central America spread the word

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

the spike is for the individuals that we are returning that we are trying to verify before they return to their home country, who this individual is, and those are typically adults.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

But, at that point, they already have other legal paperwork. So, you are saying they get legal paperwork and they are told, you should pay back taxes.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

80 percent-plus do not show up for their notice to appear, and those that do often are given some sort of deferred ability to be able to stay.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

With our staff or with contractors there on that site?

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

Our exchange of information right now with Central America, I know the visa waiver nations are different...

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

OK. Then let us talk about this: We have a million visitors come in, let us say, over a month.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

I do want to return back to the conversation that the Chairman initiated earlier about the exit program.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

So, if we have an individual coming to the United States from Venezuela, if they have stayed here long enough, at this point, we are not checking Venezuelan records to find out what happened, what they did in that country, to be able to…

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

So, it is not a requirement that they do a background check in a home country. It is not a requirement that they pay back taxes before they get deferred action.

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

Do you assume that a majority of those that are coming, then, as family members, are connected in some way as family or connection to those that were given temporary protected status before?

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

Has there been a breakdown that you have seen that you would consider reliable within the United States of where these different groups land?

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James Lankford
@jameslankford· Republican · OK· Feb 3, 2015

Right, but we are not seeing the large influx of Nicaraguans or folks from Costa Rica or Belize, Nicaragua obviously having a very tough economy right now, as well.

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