Obama: 'It's not like everybody at Ellis Island had all their papers straight'

The Washington Post 2017-04-24

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Former president Barack Obama spoke about the common history of immigration in the U.S., on April 24. "The history of our immigration system has always been a little bit haphazard," he said.
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