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Shelley Moore Capito: “Over the last 20 years or so, we've gotten to the brink of…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Joins Fox News' America's Newsroom

Published | Video Starts at 03:00

We enforce the same laws. Would you like to see additional broader based legislation try to pass in the Senate? Well, you know, as easy as that sounds, you know, well that Over the last 20 years or so, we've gotten to the brink of comprehensive immigration reform and never gotten there. And so I think that's a tough hill to climb. I think what we have to do is respect ICE agents, respect the law that they're enforcing and deescalate the situations, which I think is what Tom Homan said. (03:00–03:07)

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Asserts that comprehensive immigration reform has been attempted but not achieved in the last 20 years.

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