President. what I came to the floor to talk about is a bill we are going to be voting on this afternoon called the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act and also called the American SAFE Act. I wish he was still here. I know he just left. but I want to make one point on the chart the Senator from Virginia had where he suggested that some assert refugees are the enemy. That is not true. That is the opposite of true. The American people are the most generous people in the world when it comes to admitting refugees and naturalizing new American citizens. In the past few yearsif my memory serves me correctly. we naturalize between 800.000 and 1 million new citizens a year. America is the most open. welcoming country in the world because we recognize this is a source of our great strength. The brains. the ambition. and the hard work that go together with people who are unhappy with their current circumstance and who are looking to live the American dream and what they have to do in order to come here to America to be a part of that through a legal system of immigration I think is something to be applauded and celebrated. But this bill is about something else. This is about our national security.
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