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Pete Domenici: Let me say to those who are listening, I still want, at some point before we close debate, probably within the next 5 or…

On the recordMay 22, 2007
Let me say to those who are listening, I still want, at some point before we close debate, probably within the next 5 or 6 or 8 days, to talk to the Senate about my family and the whole history of how we got here--how we survived the immigration laws, which were very complicated 50 or so years ago when I was a little kid. They were so complicated that my mother was arrested by the Federal Government because they said she was not a citizen. She was arrested right in front of all of us children, only to find out there were some technical problems with her efforts to become a citizen. We had to sit there and watch her march off, as some people talk about happening to them today.
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Pete Domenici

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Discussing personal immigration history during Senate debate on immigration reform.

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