But I heard you say earlier, and maybe the word crime-ridden was not the exact word you used, but it was alluding to the fact that the border areas had a lot of crime, and I just simply don't agree with you.

But who is the brain child of the policy? Who hatched it? I mean, where did it come from? We have never had it before to the level it is being executed now.

Every study that we have seen will show that undocumented immigrants are underrepresented in terms of their commission of crimes.

I think we need to keep that in mind.

So, to me, that is why we need the Voting Rights Act. That is why we need so much of what is in this bill.

But what Vice President Biden became the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, and polls shows that he had the largest head to head lead against President Trump, that became a problem.

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