It is a recognition of an age of transcontinental migration. a period in which the great waves of European migration a century ago surpassed 1 million a year. as this Nation grew and achieved the diversity that it benefits from today. Mr. Speaker. we are today in another age of global migration. as populations in unprecedented numbers move around the globe and into this Nation in numbers unexperienced since that age of great immigration a century ago. Mr. Speaker. as we struggle to cope with the challenge and the benefits of the diversity that comes to this Nation today. it is important to recognize and remember those lessons from the past that have made this Nation all that it is in the twentieth century.
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