Senator Joe Manchin
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We had a 2013 piece of legislation by bipartisanship at that time.
It was a bipartisan gang of eight that put it together, and we passed it with 68 or 69 votes in the Senate.
Senate to the House.
John Boehner.
I beg John Boehner to put it on the floor.
I like John Boehner.
He's a friend of mine.
John says, Joe, I can't put it on.
Eric Cantor just got defeated in Richmond because a person from the far right accused Eric Cantor for supporting this immigration reform.
And they said this amnesty.
And by God, anybody that came here the wrong way has got to get out of here.
We got to send them back.
That bill that we put together in a bipartisan way.
that basically gave you so many days, let's say 60, 90 days or more, I forget the term, the amount right now, to go to the courthouse and turn yourself in.
Pay a fine for misdemeanor.
Let's say it was $750.
And then you would get in the back of the queue.
But once you turned yourself in, we would know if you had any criminal record or not.
Then we knew who to go after.
Because there's people been here for 10, 20, 30 years.