It does not make any sense at all when we are talking about the need to secure our borders. which every country has a right and an obligation to do. to reinstate the exclusion of legal persons based on the place they were born. There is a sad part of American history. In 1882. the 47th Congress of the United States passed a bill called the Chinese Exclusion Act. and that bill haunted this country. really. into 1943. It provided that people from China could not come. In section 404. we are de facto reinstituting the Chinese Exclusion Act because we are saying that countries that do not cooperate with us. currently the State Department tells me it is China. Vietnam. Ethiopia and Cuba. then we have the ability to exclude people who are born in those countries. Let me just give you an example. I have a lot of Vietnamese Americans in my district. Do you think the Communist government in Vietnam cares if we do not let a refugee from their country into the United States? Do you think that the communists in China really would be concerned if a Chinese citizen was escaping from China. because they are facing a forced abortion in China? Do you think that enhancing the Communist governments of Cuba.
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