Mr. Speaker. It Is with great dismay that I note the rising hue and cry raised in opposition to the admission of refugees from South Vietnam into America. Not only is such a position totally inconsistent with our previous attitudes toward refugees fleeing totalitarian regimes. but it raises serious moral and spiritual questions. America is a nation of immigrants. In the 17th century Englishmen. Dutchmen. Germans. Scots. Frenchmen. and Swedes settled the eastern seaboard. drawn together by a common desire to escape religious and/or political oppression. Spaniards began settling Florida. the gulf coast. and later what became Texas and California.
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