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On the recordJune 3, 2024
Would you please share with us, with the Committee and the American public, why it is really a terrible consequence for any State, whether it is Texas or any State, what the challenges are with a State deciding it is going to create its own immigration process?
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Veronica Escobar
Democratic · Texas

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Escobar asks Attorney General Garland about the implications of state-level immigration enforcement.

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