From the New Hampshire News:
GONYEA: George W. Bush did make immigration a top priority. Louis DeSipio is a professor of Chicano-Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine. LOUIS DESIPIO: One of the ways that he distinguished himself in the 2000 Republican primaries was to speak of the need to incorporate immigrants.

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