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Rep.-elect Tony Gonzales helps GOP hold Texas border district: 'My story is the American dream'

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Tony Gonzales, the newly elected Republican congressman from Texas, brings to Washington a drive to tackle border security and immigration reform -- examples of thorny issues that the Navy veteran says politicians have avoided for too long.

Gonzales, a Mexican-American first-time politician, will represent a majority Hispanic southern border district that Democrats unsuccessfully targeted to flip this November.

Gonzales wants solutions that strike a "balance" between homeland security and commerce while finding some pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. “I think it's a topic that a lot of people -- specifically Republicans -- haven't wanted to engage in, and I look forward to engaging in that," Gonzales told Fox News.

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