Payments of $20.000 are to be made to each person who was subject to confinement or relocation during World War II. No amount of money can adequately compensate these people for the emotional and financial hardship. and loss of liberty they experienced. This payment. however. is the most appropriate gesture we can make. I urge my colleagues to support this provision as the only equitable and reasonable step we can now take. Recognition of this terrible wrong is long overdue. It was an act based on illfounded fear and xenophobia. It violated the most fundamental principles of the very document whose writing we are celebrating today. Mr.
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