"You know, I think you see a model here in Arizona. They passed a law here that says — that says that people who come here and try and find work, that the employer is required to look them up on . This E-Verify system allows employers in Arizona to know who's here legally and who's not here legally. And as a result of E-Verify being put in place, the number of people in Arizona that are here illegally has dropped by some 14 percent, where the national average has only gone down 7 percent. So going back to the question that was asked, the right course for America is to drop these lawsuits against Arizona and other states that are trying to do the job Barack Obama isn't doing."
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posed question: "Should there be aggressive, seek them out, find them and arrest them as Sheriff Arpaio advocates?"; referring to lawsuits against Arizona SB1070
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Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician and businessman who served as a United States senator from Utah from 2019 to 2025. He previously served as the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and was the Republican's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.
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