Mr. President. as one whose maternal grandparents immigrated to the State of Vermont from Italy and paternal greatgreatgrandparents. from Ireland. I strongly support the resolution that is before the Senate. I have stated time and time again in deliberations in the Committee on Armed Services and in other forums that this country of 220 million people had involved itself in a tragic and I feel needless war for years. Now that the war is ended. we have a moral obligation not to close the door on displaced and fleeing refugees of that conflict. but to show the same kind of welcome and help that we have shown in a very proud tradition through the years of our history.
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