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Pete Sessions: “We have it within our power to fix the broken immigration system. Last year, approximately 600,000 people were arrested…”

On the recordDecember 18, 2010
We have it within our power to fix the broken immigration system. Last year, approximately 600,000 people were arrested entering our country illegally. That is lower than it has been, but a determined leadership from the President, from the Congress, can, within a matter of 1 or 2 years, end this problem, and then we can begin to wrestle with the difficult question of those who have been in our country for some time.
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Pete Sessions
Republican · Texas
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govinfo.gov
Dec 18, 2010

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The speaker addresses the need for leadership to reform the immigration system.

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