Speech #1050006735

I think that the Europeans have misunderstood the American character. Americans do not yield to blackmail. The American people. and I would think that the American people will be contacted. and I would certainly urge the American people to contact their Members of Congress to let them know once again the need to tell the Europeans that they cannot dictate American immigration policy. that they cannot dictate American national security policy. The American people. through their Congress and through their President. have a right to protect themselves against nuclear powerplants being built 100 miles from Florida. that in the case of an incident by the Cuban dictator. a purposeful incident because he likes to create crises to try to blackmail and threaten other countries. or. in the case of an accident. like in Chernobyl. it would be absolutely disastrous for not only Florida but the whole southern United States. all the way. according to nuclear experts. all the way here into northern Virginia and actually the Nations capital. So the Amerlcan people have a right to protect themselves against national security threats. to decide their immigration policy. and I am fully convinced. and I would ask the gentlewomans comments on this issue. because I am fully convinced that the American people in the next weeks and months are going to be outraged when they learn that the Europeans are using a trade forum to try to pressure and blackmail the American people into changing immigration law. because that is what they are concerned about. The gentlewoman is correct. they have thrown everything into that case. from President Kennedys cutting off the Cuban sugar quota as a sanction against the confiscation of property and other acts. illegal acts taken by Castro. to the Cuban Democracy Act in 1992. to the HelmsBurton law. They are actually after one thing. and that was made clear to us in meeting after meeting. They want to change the immigration policy of the United States because they are mad that an investor of theirs knowingly can traffic in United States property in Cuba and get notice. get a right to divest. and yet they want to continue trafficking knowingly and dealing in stolen property from American citizens. Then under the U.S. immigration laws. they are excluded from the United States. and they are mad about that. So that is what they want to change. They want to change U.S. immigration law. and when the American people realize in the next weeks and months what this debate is all about. I think they will be outraged. Does the gentlewoman agree?