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Steve King: “This immigration issue is so complicated, so unpredictable and has so many hypotheticals that I contend that it is…”

On the recordMarch 12, 2007
This immigration issue is so complicated, so unpredictable and has so many hypotheticals that I contend that it is impossible for a body of 100 Senators or 435 House Members or a President to chart a course through that and be able to put law in place that deals with all of the contingencies and ends up with the kind of product that if we can even agree on what that is, we could not get there. It is beyond human ability to put that into a law and make that work; too many hypotheticals. So what I will submit is that we need to take this, as you suggested, one step at a time. I am for let's go ahead and get things under control at the border. Stop the bleeding.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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Discussing the complexities of immigration reform during a floor speech.

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