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JB Pritzker: “The Republicans have never proposed this under Donald Trump…”

Featuring: JB Pritzker, Democratic | Governor of Illinois

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Gov. Pritzker on DNC, Immigration, and Fighting Authoritarianism | Full Interview

Published | Video Starts at 29:08

They want a path towards staying in this country. Whether we call it citizenship or just legal residency, we need to give them that path. And we're not doing it today. And The Republicans have never proposed this under Donald Trump. He wants to do something about immigration. He should have come into office and right away he had control of the House and the Senate. The presidency could have passed immigration reform. instead. While he was the candidate for the Republicans, he opposed the bill that Democrats and Republicans were willing to vote for, the one that was proposed by Lankford to keep the border safe and to do something about people who are inside this country. (29:08–29:22)

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Asserts that Republicans, under Donald Trump, did not propose immigration reform despite having control of the presidency, House, and Senate.

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