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Cesar Blanco: “The first casualty in the Iraq war was an immigrant, right?…”

Featuring: Cesar Blanco, Democratic | Texas Senate, District 29

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A Conversation with Reps. César Blanco & Brooks Landgraf.

Published | Video Starts at 47:22

If you're a dreamer and you're brought to this country without any of your control, and you grew up in our system, you have every right, from my perspective, to be here. We've got The first casualty in the Iraq war was an immigrant, right? Didn't even have his citizenship. Immigrants contribute immensely to our economy. To our country. We just recently found out that there's this draft memo going now from the Trump administration, Department of Homeland Security to Department of Homeland Security about utilizing the Texas National Guard to help with immigration enforcement. (47:22–47:28)

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Asserts that the first casualty in the Iraq war was an immigrant who did not have U.S. citizenship.

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