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Steve King: “The thought that goes through my mind as I listen to that discussion about the cumulative total of legal immigrants in…”

On the recordMarch 21, 2007
The thought that goes through my mind as I listen to that discussion about the cumulative total of legal immigrants in the United States, it occurs to me that the Senate bill that passed last year that they said was not amnesty, that the American people rejected because clearly it was amnesty, according to Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, would have legalized over the next 20 years, and that is the calculation period of time that we have for immigration, 66.1 million people. It also occurs to me that back in 1986 when President Reagan signed the amnesty bill, that was supposed to legalize 1 million people, and that went over 3 million people.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of immigration legislation and past amnesty bills.

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