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Dana Rohrabacher: “I would just hope that those people who want to extend 245(i) go down and take a look at the blood on the floor of the…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2002
I would just hope that those people who want to extend 245(i) go down and take a look at the blood on the floor of the LAX airport before they do. Take a look at the picture of those poor people who were murdered by this either fanatic or unstable foreigner who was here illegally, whom we could have sent back, but instead, we kept, because our colleagues have bought into this idea that it is in some way a positive thing to permit this loophole to exist.
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Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · California

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Discussing immigration policy and its consequences during a House floor debate.

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