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Fully KeptImmigration

Continue to oppose efforts to grant amnesty to people who violate U.S. immigration laws.

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 88%

Both cited sources were fetched and verified. (1) The Senate.gov roll call for the 113th Congress, 1st session, vote 168 confirms S.744 (Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act) passed 68-32 on June 27, 2013, and that Boozman (R-AR) voted Nay — every fact in the cited quote is accurate; roll-call pages are structured data, so the quote is a faithful synthesis of the page fields, not fabricated. (2) Boozman's official Senate press release contains the EXACT quoted sentence "Congress approved amnesty in the mid-1980s. It didn't work then and it won't work now." and confirms the "legalize now, enforce later" framing referenced in the rationale. The promise is a continuing commitment to oppose amnesty; S.744 was the defining amnesty vehicle of his tenure (a legalization/citizenship pathway for unlawfully present immigrants), and he opposed it by recorded vote AND publicly framed his opposition explicitly in anti-amnesty terms. This is direct, on-point evidence of the promised outcome, supporting FULL. CHAMPIONED is correctly rejected — the evidence is opposition via vote and statement, with no authoring, sponsoring, or leading of standalone anti-amnesty legislation, which the leadership bar requires. The only minor weakness is that the rationale's "consistently opposed... since" claim extends slightly beyond the two documented sources (which establish the 2013 vote and statement), but the core promised outcome is squarely supported and not overstated to a degree warranting downgrade.

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