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On the recordOctober 3, 2011
I find it curious that a practical, risk-based approach to removal of undocumented aliens would be characterized by my friends across the aisle as administrative amnesty.
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Jacob Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson critiques the labeling of immigration enforcement strategies as amnesty.

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