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Tony Evers: “Most of them are, you know, look at our Arcadia and the two…”

Featuring: Tony Evers, Democratic | Governor of Wisconsin

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Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers discusses immigration

Published | Video Starts at 02:06

Well, if an undocumented person has broke the law in a significant way, yeah, they would be in our presence too. So that's not the issue. That's a very, very, very, very small number of people. Most of them are, you know, look at our Arcadia and the two plants that Arcadia have. If they decide, well, we're gonna, anybody that's not a U.S. citizen, we're gonna send them home. That town and those two plants that operate there will blow away. And they're right now the workers that are doing that, that support them, they're part of Wisconsin and they're part of our public schools and they're part of our churches and they're part of us and they're doing a good job. (02:06–02:28)

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Asserts that deporting non-citizen workers would devastate Arcadia's economy.

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