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On the recordMarch 13, 2012
People ask me that. I mean, I just wonder, I mean, if we have 8.3 percent unemployment, and maybe 15 percent of underemployed, and people have stopped working, how can it be that we need visa programs for the seafood industry, the landscaping industry, and H-1B, the high-tech industry?
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina

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Graham questions the need for visa programs despite high unemployment figures.

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