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Our conversation with Rep, Lamar Smith will be starting shortly.
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On the 1990 Immigration Act "It didn't work out the way I expected. It did raise the cap several hundred thousand, which went the wrong way as far as I'm concerned. If I had opposed it actively, we could've possibly defeated it. I was young and naive." -Lamar Smith
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"If it hadn't been for activist group pressure, we would've passed the entire 1986 immigration bill as originally introduced. It would've cut chain migration, as Barbara Jordan recommended... Instead, the Clinton administration gave in to the pressure" - Lamar Smith
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