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Summer Lee: Essentially because the agency has told us that you can't enforce U.S. immigration law.

On the recordFebruary 4, 2013
Essentially because the agency has told us that you can't enforce U.S. immigration law.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Sheila Jackson Lee discusses issues related to enforcing immigration law.

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