It's an incomplete bill, but it's a step in the right direction. And I was just as appalled as Senator Lankford, the Republican sponsor of that Bill, and Mitch McConnell and everybody else that Donald Trump told them to kill that bill because he wanted to be able to use immigration as a campaign tactic. We shouldn't be using the lives of Americans and the lives of immigrants in that political way. Congresswoman, thank you very much for that same question. (18:02–18:10)
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