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Jon Kyl: “I want to clarify for the membership who we are really talking about. These are people--850,000 of them--who are already…”

On the recordApril 25, 1996
I want to clarify for the membership who we are really talking about. These are people--850,000 of them--who are already here. My colleague says no one is talking about kicking them out. They are already in the country. So to me it is a little misleading, or maybe it does not tell the whole story, to use the term we are "reunifying" these people--and that is the purported sense of the Simpson amendment--when, in fact, they are already physically unified. They may not be on paper unified but they are here and living together. That is who he intends to benefit.
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Jon Kyl
Republican · Arizona
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Discussing the implications of the Simpson amendment on family unity in immigration policy.

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