Mr. Speaker. one of the great American stories is the one about the millions of immigrants who have come to this land since that company of adventurers landed at Jamestown. Va.. to settle in a new land. While those cavaliers founded the first permanent English colony in America they were not the first immigrants and the 42 million who followed will doubtless not be the last. On October 3. 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a new immigration bill which removes many of the discriminatory and distasteful elements which had given to bigotry. the stature of law during the early part of this century. This was the latest act in the long history of American immigration. the reopening of the golden door on a virtually nondiscriminatory basis. There are Members of this Congress. including myself. who were the children of immigrants in the very specific sense that one or the other of our parents came here from some foreign land but as Franklin Roosevelt pointed out to the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1938 we are all of us the children of immigrants. With this in mind. I commend to the attention of our colleagues the following article which appeared in the February 20. 1966. edition of This Week magazine:
Keywords matched
immigration immigrants