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Glenn Grothman: “We let in about 470,000 people on student visas, about…”

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

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Immigration Debate: Perspectives from Wisconsin and Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 01:09

We have, I think over the last three years, an average of about 860,000 people every year who are naturalized citizens, who are sworn in as new citizens and did things the right way. And that's in addition to We let in about 470,000 people on student visas, about 900,000 people who are on citizens on work visas. So we're very generous. Nevertheless, we just got through a four year period in which we had a president. (01:09–01:20)

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