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Pete Sessions: “Close to a million, if you take the figure of 700,000. I am not sure we have thought it through. The Senator, I…”

On the recordApril 18, 2005
Close to a million, if you take the figure of 700,000. I am not sure we have thought it through. The Senator, I believe--who was here in 1987 when the 1986 amnesty was passed--would admit that the estimate of how many people would take advantage of it was very low. In fact, I believe three times as many people took advantage of that amnesty as the estimators estimated. It could happen here. I don't know.
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Pete Sessions
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