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Immigration Helps Make America Stronger

Should There Be a Path to Citizenship for Illegal Immigrants?

By Rep. Zoe Lofgren
Special to Roll Call
July 14, 2006, 3:27 p.m.

Should there be amnesty? Should there be a path to citizenship? These questions are the wrong questions to be asking. They simply incite passions that often prevent logic and our national interest from being the guide to American immigration law and policy.

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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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