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On the recordDecember 9, 2010
I say we have not had that leadership. What happens 3 years from now when we have another group that has come illegally at age 15 or 16 because they have seen what happens to the ones who came before? Are we then going to say they don't get amnesty? No. We will have lost the moral high ground, the right, responsible effort to have a lawful system in America. We are surrendering to it if we vote for this bill.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas

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Sessions discusses the implications of granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants.

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