As I understood it, those were the parents of citizens who would come in legally, and under the deeming process their children assumed, as my colleague from Pennsylvania properly described, the financial responsibility of those parents coming in. The exchange was that both the Democratic proposal and the underlying bill prohibit that kind of situation from persisting. I think we all agree on that.
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