Speech #890136569

To those of us in Congress who have pressed for this legislation. enactment may represent the chance to point out the fulfillment of a campaign promise. And there is an Italian gentleman in Bostonwhom I know through correspondencewho is delighted with the bill because it will let more Italians in and he thinks Italians are better than anyone elseexactly the sort of thinking that the bill seeks to get us away from. And. of course. there are those thousands who are eager for enactment because current Immigration policy seriously offends their sense of fair play. their loyalty to the treasured philosophies of Jefferson. Yet. all of these viewpoints--favorable to the bill as they may bemust be considered subordinate to a greater perspectivethe view that history will take on our actions here. The viewpoint must necessarily be a very benign one.