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Glenn Grothman: “The number of people keep being sworn as new citizens are…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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Glenn Grothman's Speech on Immigration and Marriage Policies in Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 02:03

And by the way, that is historically a very high number. If you go back to the 50s and 60s frequently, that number was only a little over 100,000. So The number of people keep being sworn as new citizens are already eight times what they were in the 60s and 50s. Nobody should apologize for saying we're, you know, we're being mean or not letting people in here. (02:03–02:14)

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Asserts that the current number of new citizens is eight times higher than in the 1950s and 1960s.

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