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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) gave these remarks to members of the Heritage Foundation Friday on the bill he will be introducing in the Senate early next week on immigration.

It’s a pleasure to be with you today. I’m honored that the Heritage Foundation has invited me to speak about my soon-to-be introduced bill, the Strengthening Our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America’s Security Act.

We know that the immigration-related efforts by the Obama administration and the Democrats have focused more on building support from their political base, knowing full well that the more mainstream members of their party are opposed to amnesty-focused immigration reform. In the meantime, our immigration system continues to be woefully inadequate in preventing the types of immigration abuses we are experiencing across the nation. 

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