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What I put forward was an amendment that would have temporarily halted immigration from high-risk terrorist countries, but would have started it up, but I wanted them to go through Global Entry, which is a program where we do background checks.

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Ted Cruz
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: December 22
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