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- ↑ Ted Poe (6 February 2013). "Poe named Chairman of Immigration Reform Caucus; holds kickoff meeting". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ↑ Ted Poe (1 June 2007). "Immigration Reform Caucus: Amnesty for millions is more than just a narrow slice of the proposed immigration bill". United States House of Representatives. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
- ↑ Gulasekaram, Pratheepan and S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (2015). The New Immigration Federalism, p. 104. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 9781107530867
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