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Diana DeGette: “We have 11 million people who are here whose status needs to…”

Featuring: Diana DeGette, Democratic | U.S. House, Colorado, District 1

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: Candidate Forum _ U.S. Congress, District 1 _ Denver Decides Candidate Forum

Published | Video Starts at 17:18

Do you support what was widely considered the bipartisan immigration bill that was defeated earlier this year? If yes, why? And if no, why not? Thank you so much, Mr. Haythorne. And I support comprehensive immigration reform. We have 11 million people who are here whose status needs to be regularized. We also need to enforce our border. And as Vice President Harris said just last week, we need to increase the resources to deal with people who are coming and claiming asylum. (17:18–17:25)

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Asserts that 11 million people in the US need their immigration status regularized.

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