Polish. Greek. and othershave in one way or another made a real contribution to the development and the greatness of the United States. Immigrants not only produced leaders in government. medicine. law. and every other field of the human endeavor but they truly are the ones who cleared acre after acre of forest and stonestrewn field to build the mighty farmlands. They. too. lent their muscle to the task of laying the endless ribbons of steel that connected our developing centers of commerce. They toiled in the mills and factories which helped to evolve our present industrial strength. Walt Whitman truly captured the immigrants role in this country when he said: These States are the amplest poemhere is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. All of us in this House of Representatives are aware of the contributions made by the immigrant and the son of the immigrant. Many. if not all of us. in the House of Representatives need look no further than their own parents or their own grandparents to find the blood of an immigrant. It is. therefore. a significant day and an historical day. in my judgment when we in the Congress modernize and make truly nondiscriminatory. just and fair the immigration laws of our country. I hope. therefore. that this legislation will receive. as it did in the subcommittee and in the full committee. bipartisan support and that it will pass in this House by an overwhelming majority.
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