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On the recordJuly 16, 2014
But, are you telling me that his Executive order that we are not going to send children back did not cause an explosion when people understood that, if they got here, that they were not going to have to go back anymore?
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

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Senator Risch questions the impact of an Executive order on immigration numbers.

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