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Improved Border Security Is Needed

What Measures Should Be Taken to Secure Our Borders?

By Sen. Arlen Specter
Special to Roll Call
July 14, 2006, 3:20 p.m.

Americans agree that our immigration system is broken and requires reform. While border security and employer verification require legislation, the House-Senate conference also should include a guest-worker program and address the 11 million undocumented immigrants who should not become a fugitive underclass in America.

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February 9, 2012

Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently suspended her campaign for the presidency, speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 9.

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