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Dale Bumpers: “I would almost be willing to grant him carte blanche, if he wants to come here bad enough to get into a little old boat…”

On the recordMay 18, 1998
I would almost be willing to grant him carte blanche, if he wants to come here bad enough to get into a little old boat and come from Cuba, that is fine. Give that guy a chance to become an American citizen. That is the way our ancestors came. They took risks to get here. They would do anything in the world--to fight and scratch and claw to get here. And people still do. So what are we doing? We are not rewarding them. We are taking up some of the immigration slots in this country with this scam, one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated by the U.S. Congress deliberately.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing immigration policy and the challenges faced by those seeking to enter the U.S.

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