President. I thank my colleagues for giving me 5 minutes. As my late friend Alex Haley. the author of "Roots." said. "Find the good and praise it." We talk an awful lot about illegal immigration here in the Senate. The majority and minority leaders have both said that before Memorial Day. we will bring up immigration reform in a comprehensive manner. I hope very much that we do that. That is our responsibility. It is too big a problem for one party to solve. and we should work on it in a bipartisan way. Today. I want to talk about legal immigration as opposed to illegal immigration. About 650.000 individuals become U.S. citizens every year. Each of us has attended ceremonies where this happens. This is at the very heart of our Nation. This is why we call the United States of America the Nation of immigrants. What is so important about them is that no one becomes an American based upon his or her race or where their grandparents came from. In fact. that is constitutionally impermissible.
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