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Citizenship Path Is a ‘Curious’ Concept

Should There Be a Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants?

By Rep. Tom Tancredo
Special to Roll Call
July 14, 2006, 3:25 p.m.

Providing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants is a central part of the Senate’s amnesty bill and has been a constant theme of the president’s proposal as well. It also is a very curious concept, almost an oxymoronic one. Maybe that is why some proposals that want to earn the label “compromise solution” seek to hide it and not discuss it candidly.

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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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