The question is. Should we require that and give extra points for that for people before they come into this country? For example. again. using this Boston public high schools example. this year. 13 of the 17 valedictorians at Boston public high schools this year were foreign born. All but one. aparently. were from a country where their parents probably did not speak English. Under this amendment. their parents would have a very. very tough time coming into this country. My colleague talks about the 88to4 vote last time in the U.S. Senate. That was on the whole immigration bill. My guess is. you did not have 10 people in this bodyI do not mean this disrespectfully. but we frequently do not know the details of legislation that comes before uswho knew there was such a provision here. Senator SIMPSON mentioned that one of the enlightening things out of thisand Senator SIMPSON mentioned his middle name. and I did not know that before. He mentioned that Dutch middle name of his. I want to see that people. whether they are Dutch or German or Italian or they come from Malawi in Africa or Thailand in Asia. or wherever they come from. if their mother tongue is not English. that they have a chance to immigrate to this country. I do not want to see us. for the first time in the Nations history. set a different precedent. Absolutely. once people are here. learn the English language.
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