President. I will just take 2 or 3 minutes here in final comment. America thrives on immigration. It always has. and it always will. We cant afford to put a sign on the Statute of Liberty that says. "no vacancy." Yet thats what weve been saying to too many nations for too many years. Immigration issues are profoundly important. They touch the heart of what America is. They remind us how we all became Americans. They tell us who the future Americans will be. Discrimination any time. any place. anywhere is wrong. There is too much discrimination and too many restrictions in our immigration laws. The gates of this country have been slammed shut on too many peoples in too many other lands who deserve a fair chance to become Americans. That has to stop. or America will not be America. It helps at times like thiswhen passions are high about immigration. when It Is sometimes difficult for the Senate to discern its true prioritiesto go back to first principles. In my view. those principles have rarely. if ever. been stated more eloquently than in the famous words of the sonnet by Emma Lazarus. inscribed on a plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Millions of immigrants have heard those words. and it helps for the Senate to hear them too. I quote: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame. With conquering limbs astride from land to land.
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