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Barack Obama: Comprehensive reform is not only an economic imperative or a security imperative, it's also a moral imperative.

On the recordMay 11, 2011
Comprehensive reform is not only an economic imperative or a security imperative, it's also a moral imperative.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast

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