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On the recordMay 19, 2010
There are many issues before Congress, both great and small--all of tremendous importance. One of the issues that there's an outcry among the American people for us to deal with is immigration reform. Whether people are conservative or liberal, left or right, Republican or Democrat, we agree that what we are doing now does not work. We have a large population living, working here illegally. We don't have adequate enforcement of our borders, verification of who can work. Now, within our efforts to solve immigration, to replace our broken immigration system with one that works and reflects our basic American values of, if you follow the law and learn English, you're welcome here, within the comprehensive House immigration reform bill that I'm a cosponsor of there's a provision to create jobs for Americans to help make immigration work for us rather than immigration be a cost for us. Today, there are investors and foreign entrepreneurs who raise venture capital, ready to start their companies, who can't get the visas to come to this country and start their companies here.
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Jared Polis
Democratic · Colorado
Source
govinfo.gov
May 19, 2010

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Speaker Polis addresses the need for immigration reform and its impact on American jobs and entrepreneurship.

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