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Pete Buttigieg: “I think it was the 80s the last time we had an actual bill…”

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I mean, that's where most people are. That's about most of the country. Yeah. And that's where most of the space for compromise has been on the Hill. And yet I think it was the 80s the last time we had an actual bill to fix [immigration]. it. So I think he, and this is speculating. I mean, I never really was in the middle of the immigration side of things, but I think he felt like the way to do this was to get things done in Congress. (41:05–41:09)

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Asserts that the last significant immigration reform bill was in the 1980s.

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