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Lamar Smith: “If so, it is very disturbing because that is about five times their proportion of the population.”

On the recordOctober 11, 2011
If so, it is very disturbing because that is about five times their proportion of the population.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Smith comments on the high percentage of illegal immigrants among federal prisoners.

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