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Judiciary chairman warns against immigration provisions in NAFTA rewrite

June 19, 2017 at 11:49 AM
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) is warning the Trump administration against including new immigration language in a renegotiated NAFTA, citing two decades' worth of congressional criticism and actions that followed inclusion of language on professional workers in the 1994 agreement. “I do not ask you to rescind NAFTA’s professional visa program when you renegotiate the agreement (though it is clearly within your power to do so),” Goodlatte wrote in a June 12 letter to the Office of the...

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