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James Talarico: “There are civil offenses like being here without…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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Published | Video Starts at 35:07

Okay, okay, here's what I will say. Tyler. We do recognize in our legal system that there are different punishments for different kinds of offenses. There are civil offenses like being here without documentation. There are criminal offenses like murdering, raping someone. And those things are treated differently. And so in my mind, and again, I'm open to negotiating how the details work, but there needs to be in broad strokes a … (35:07–35:14)

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Asserts that being undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one.

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