Veronica Escobar: “Past legislation has placed a permanent bar on the spouse if…”

“Thank you so much. Before I introduce introduce our next speaker, something I want to share with you all about the bill is when an American citizen marries someone without documents, Past legislation has placed a permanent bar on the spouse if at any point that spouse entered into the country without documents. A permanent bar. That means even immigration judges have not been allowed the discretion to make their own judgment on a case by case basis. What this legislation does is it restores judicial discretion.” (07:38–07:52)

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