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On the recordFebruary 24, 2015
First of all, I think we should use this document because it is a letter written in 1999 signed by Henry Hyde and Lamar Smith and Bill McCollum and a series of other outstanding Republican Chairmen of this Committee, in which they write to Janet Reno, saying you guys have to promulgate some discretion here.
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Luis Gutiérrez
Democratic · Illinois

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Gutierrez emphasizes the need for discretion in immigration enforcement based on a historical letter.

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