Is the message this country wants to send them. that what they have done is unforgivable regardless of whatever changes they may have courageously made? Wouldnt the country gain by having an incentive in law that might attract young people to leave gang life and move their lives forward a very different way? Wouldnt it be helpful to the country to have a waiver that a person could apply for if they can prove they have left a gang and provided evidence on how they have moved on?" Every change in our immigration law represents a statement about whom we are as a country. Are we a country that takes individual circumstances into account or are we a country that punishes with no regard for individual circumstances? We can be tough on crime and yet retain a level of discretion in our immigration laws? This is the crux of the difference between what I am suggesting to the Senate and what Senator CORNYN has proposed. That a measure of discretion is every bit as much a tool of law enforcement as the strictest ban.
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