We have news of people in this country who are incarcerated in our prisons without any idea whether they are citizens or whether they are not. No one wants to ask the question. We are so intimidated by somehow or another this civilization of guilt that because America is a nation of immigrants that we cannot have a rational immigration policy. But I would submit. Mr. Speaker. that America is a nation of immigrants. I would ask the question of Americans. Name a nation that is not a nation of immigrants. In fact. as I had a discussion with a historian. a Japanese historian. last evening. he talked about how they have a better understanding of the migration that came into Japan and the ethnic groups that make up the very homogeneous Japanese people today. but they come from. some of them. different origins. and they have been blended together on that island as a homogeneous people. but still they are Immigrants. some generations. many generations ago. The same goes for here in the United States. The same goes for Native Americans who came across the Bering Strait. by most accounts. perhaps 12.000 years ago. They were immigrants then. Mr. Speaker. and they were here first. yes.
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