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Markwayne Mullin: “Congress made the laws, we enforce them.”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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And I don't care if you've been here two years, five years, or 15 or 20 years, if you entered the country illegally, you chose to go around our immigration laws that Congress set, not dhs. Congress made the laws, we enforce them. You chose to say, I'm more important than everybody else that's doing it legally, which we have people legally enter this country every single day, do it the legal way. (31:34–31:38)

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Asserts that Congress is responsible for making immigration laws, which are enforced by relevant authorities.

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