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Zoe Lofgren: “I believed then, as now, that the bill was a mean-spirited bill that would do drastic damage to immigrants and our…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2013
I believed then, as now, that the bill was a mean-spirited bill that would do drastic damage to immigrants and our immigration system.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Lofgren criticizes the 1996 immigration reform for its negative impact on immigrants.

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