“You usually end up with bad policy if you do it in an emotional way or an emotional reaction,” said Coats on ABC’s “This Week.” “We saw some things post-9/11 that were enacted that if we had had a little bit more rational time to think this through, perhaps we wouldn’t have had some of the pushback on it.
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“We have a broken system, it needs to be reformed. But I’m afraid we’ll rush to some judgments relative to immigration and how it’s processed. So let’s do it in a rational way rather than an emotional way,” he added…
“I think stepping back just a little bit and putting it on hold, for instance, we have a bigger issue than immigration in front of us. And that’s our debt deficit and it’s got to get solved,” he said.
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