Speech #1040203077

He and I worked on this together on the welfare bill. It is part of this bill. and it is vitally important. We change the law to say that you cannot come to America as an immigrant and go on welfare. We have room in America for people who come with their sleeves rolled up. ready to go to work. But we do not have room for people who come with their hand out. Let us remember that when people come to America legally and go to work. and with their energy and with the sweat of their brow they build their life. they build the future of our country. A final point that I want to address is this whole question about the changing nature of immigration. There is something in each of us that leads us to believe that we are the unique Americans. that somehow we made the country what it is. that somehow it was because American immigration in the early days was basically drawn first from northern Europe and then from southern Europe that it made us some- come Americans. There is no way that how unique. can ever be changed. Any differences I think it was the system that made that concern us very quickly vanish in America. and we might have had this this country with great opportlinity. debate in the year of 1900 when the im- where people are Judged on their indimigration patterns of the country had vidual merit. shifted to southern Europe and eastern What we are talking about today is Europe. I am sure at the turn of the trying to stop illegal Immigration. century there were those in corporate which is what we should do. but we boardrooms who were wondering what should not back away from our comwas going to happen in America with mitment to letting people come to the changing makeup of the country America to build their dream and ours. when they. as people from British We should not close the door on people stock who had come to the country on who want to bring their relatives to the Mayflower or in some historic voy- America as long as their relatives age. had to share their America with come to work. as long as they continue Americans who had come from Ger- to achieve the amazing success that many or from Italy or with Americans immigrants have achieved in America. who had come from all over the world There are a lot of things we ought to who were of the Jewish faith. I do not worry about before we go to bed every doubt somebody in 1900. and maybe a night. We ought to worry about the lot of people. worried about it. deficit.