The Balkans are diverse. Our most magnificent accomplishment and greatest strength. and one we should not forget during this debate. is that we have taken all this diversity and formed it into one nation. That is why I was pleased to see that the Senate adopted. before the immigration bill got off track. an amendment I proposed with a number of other Senators that would help prospective citizens become Americans. It would do it in a number of ways. In the first place. it would raise to the level of law George Washingtons oath. slightly rewritten. the same oath that a half million to a million new citizens have taken every year. an oath that recognizes that someone has waited that 5 years. learned English to an eighthgrade level. passed a test in our history. demonstrated their good character. and said: I foreswear allegiance from where I came. and I pledge allegiance to the United States.
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