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Hillary Clinton: If we can tighten our borders, if we can crack down on employer who exploit workers, both those who are undocumented and…

On the recordJanuary 30, 2008
If we can tighten our borders, if we can crack down on employer who exploit workers, both those who are undocumented and those who are here as citizens, or legal, if we can do more to help local communities cope with the cost that they often have to contend with, if we do more to help our friends to the south create more jobs for their own people, and if we take what we know to be the realities that we confront -- 12 to 14 million people here, what will we do with them?
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Hillary Clinton
Democratic · New York

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Clinton outlines her approach to immigration and the challenges posed by undocumented workers.

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