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Jeff Flake: “I do believe that once you allow that person to stay in the United States after they have come here in violation of law…”

On the recordApril 21, 2013
I do believe that once you allow that person to stay in the United States after they have come here in violation of law, I would believe that most Americans would think that that would be an amnesty.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

Editor's note · Context

Flake defines amnesty in the context of immigration law violations.

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