If it is all right to ask someone named Sanchez or Gutierrez or some other Hispanic surname to prove their citizenship. why do not Republicans go and seek to ask other individuals their citizenship. as well? The bottom line is. that is not what they are doing. I have many. many new immigrants to my congressional district whose surnames are from European nations. We do not question those surnames as to whether or not that individual is a citizen or not. So the fact of the matter is when some people say you are talking and trying to create a question of ethnicity. we are not trying to create that. that has been created by the Republican majority of the committee. how they have pursued this. the procedures that they have followed. the fact that the only names being pursued are those of Hispanic and Asian descent. and overwhelmingly so.
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Questioning citizenship based on Hispanic or Asian surnames.