I think it is a right. I think we are doing something that lives up to the very best in America. I say to my colleague and to people in the country. my colleague from Texas wants to hold this bill up because he finds it to be an offensive proposition that we should say that for legal immigrants we will make sure there is some assistance for those people who are elderly. disabled. and for small children. The Physicians for Human Rights released a report this past week finding an alarming amount of hunger and malnutrition among these legal immigrants. Food stuff use is on the rise. In the United States of America today at the peak of our economic performance we have people who are hungry and in jeopardy. What we ought to do here is restore some assistance for these legal immigrants. These asylees and refugees are people who have fled oppression in countries like Indonesia. China. you name it. They come to our country in the hope that we would be willing to extend a helping hand. My colleague from Texas talks about that as if it is a bad thing to do. I thought that is what we were aboutpeople who fled persecution. people who were legal immigrants. Many of them were parents. My dad fled persecution from Russia.
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