I am reminded now. in these last moments. Cardinal Mahony. the Archbishop of Los Angeles. has been a courageous voice on these issues: Now is a historic moment for our country. We need to come together and enact immigration reform that protects our national security and upholds our basic human rights and dignity. That is the challenge before us. Fifty years ago President Kennedy wrote a book called "A Nation of Immigrants." In this bookI will just mention a very brief parthe writes: In just over 350 years. a nation of nearly 200 million people has grown up. populated almost entirely by persons who either came from other lands or whose forefathers came from other lands. As President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminded a convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution. "Remember. remember always. that all of us. and you and I especially. are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." As Walt Whitman said. "These States are the amplest poem. Here Is not merely a nation but a teeming Nation of Nations." To know America. then. It is necessary to understand this peculiarly American social revolution.
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