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On the recordJune 21, 2018
Madam Speaker, I would just like to say, I think that the President has taken the Dreamers, the little children, the asylum- seeking families as hostages for the anti-immigrant provisions in this bill. It has been mentioned that we have a generous immigration system. To whom? Two-thirds of the visas go to the immediate nuclear family of Americans. So that is what we want. To eliminate the ability of Americans to have their sons and daughters with them is simply wrong. Madam Speaker, we should vote against this disaster of a bill.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

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