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Barack Obama: “That's what comprehensive immigration looks like, smarter enforcement, a pathway to earn citizenship, improvements in…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2013
That's what comprehensive immigration looks like, smarter enforcement, a pathway to earn citizenship, improvements in the legal immigration system, so that we continue to be a magnet for the best and the brightest all around the world.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Describing his vision for comprehensive immigration reform.

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