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Melvin Watt: The notion that we would invest all of this money in them and then send them back to a country that they had no…

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
The notion that we would invest all of this money in them and then send them back to a country that they had no connection to just seems to me to be absolute folly.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Watt criticizes the idea of deporting young immigrants who have no ties to their parents' home countries.

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