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Gary Palmer: “About 40 percent of the people who are here illegally are here--won't even be here for the next census.”

On the recordJuly 28, 2020
About 40 percent of the people who are here illegally are here--won't even be here for the next census.
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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Palmer discusses the transient nature of unauthorized immigrants and their impact on the census.

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