She said, I don't know, I think you better call Durbin. So they called us and told us her situation. And unfortunately, the law was very clear and very cruel. The law said that [Teresa Lee] had to leave the United States for 10 years and then petition to come back. I thought, that's just horrible. It's terrible. And so I decided to introduce a bill called the DREAM Act. The first hearing we ever had on the bill was in this very same room. (01:22–01:32)
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Asserts that U.S. immigration law required Teresa Lee to leave the U.S. for 10 years before returning.
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