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Luis Gutiérrez: “We wanted to give it to you. And in our bill, 50,000, you get to come from the very first day with your wife.”

On the recordFebruary 4, 2013
We wanted to give it to you. And in our bill, 50,000, you get to come from the very first day with your wife.
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Luis Gutiérrez
Democratic · Illinois

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Gutierrez discusses a bill allowing families of immigrants to stay together.

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