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On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
about 40 percent of the people that are here illegally out of the 11 or 12 million that are here came here--they came here legally.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Senator Carper highlights that many illegal immigrants initially entered legally.

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