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Chris Smith: Last question. Since 2007, we, in the United States, as you know so well, have been doing very aggressive screening…

On the recordDecember 7, 2015
Last question. Since 2007, we, in the United States, as you know so well, have been doing very aggressive screening among the immigrant population--legal immigrants this is--and the refugees, the 450,000 immigrants and 70,000 refugees annually, and as a matter of fact, it is so stringent that if somebody has TB they have to come in without it or they are inadmissible to the United States.
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Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses stringent TB screening for immigrants and refugees in the U.S.

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