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Richard Blumenthal: “We provided for more visas, agricultural visas, as well as…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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CT Mirror Presents: "In The Room: A Conversation with US Senator Richard Blumenthal"

Published | Video Starts at 45:53

John Cornyn and I and other members of Judiciary got together and we actually hammered out a bill in the Judiciary Committee that provided a path to earn citizenship for undocumented people who are here, 11 million at the time. We provided for more visas, agricultural visas, as well as H1B visas for industry and manufacturing. We provided a number of reforms to the asylum process to eliminate the backlog asylum claims and provided more resources for judges. And by the way, we provided for border security. (45:53–46:02)

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Asserts that the 2014 immigration reform bill included provisions for more agricultural and H1B visas.

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