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Dick Durbin: “The Trump administration announced it would force legal…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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Durbin Denounces The President's Cruel Mass Deportation Campaign

Published | Video Starts at 07:47

The administration's attack on immigrants goes far beyond daca. With President Trump and his close friend and advisor Stephen Miller in the White House, no immigrant is safe from this administration. Last month, The Trump administration announced it would force legal immigrants to leave America and apply for a green card back in their country of origin, except in rare circumstances. That means immigrants who may have been here for years, who married a US Citizen, children who are citizen, would have to leave their family for God knows how long. (07:47–08:02)

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Asserts that the Trump administration requires legal immigrants to apply for green cards from their home countries.

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