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Mike Lawler: “Congress has not fixed our broken immigration system in 40…”

Featuring: Mike Lawler, Republican | U.S. House, New York, District 17

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Rep. Mike Lawler addresses immigration ahead of Trump's State of the Union

Published | Video Starts at 05:03

Would you like to hear some of the compassion you're talking about tonight? Like, is there a way to thread that needle? Look, I think this is emblematic of the problem. Congress has not fixed our broken immigration system in 40 years. Not since Ronald Reagan working with a bipartisan Congress to get immigration reform done have we done it. And so from my vantage point, you brought up, you know, Haitian tps, for instance. (05:03–05:10)

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Reiterates that Congress has not reformed the immigration system in four decades.

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