SWALWELL made. a number of the speakers here tonight have made. This is a false choice. We can have the necessary debate on immigration and immigration reform. There has been a great American tradition going back to the very beginning of. on the one hand. praising the immigrants of yesteryear while simultaneously expressing concern about the immigrants of the present day. That was the case in the 1840s and in the 1880s and in the 1920s. and so it is today. That debate will always be a part of who we are as a nation of immigrants and as a nation of laws. I think that debate needs to happen. and we need to have that here on the floor of the House. the same way they did in the Senate where they passed the bill with 70 votes on a bipartisan basis. So lets get to that debate.
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