Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to be here with my colleague
Pramila Jayapal from Seattle, Washington. We wanted to talk about what
has been happening over the last week with the executive orders on
immigration and asylum that have taken place, and we want to try to
take a broad perspective on this; to put it in some historical, legal
and constitutional context; and then also to talk very specifically
about the executive orders and what has been taking place with them in
different parts of the country; and about the multiple Federal judicial
rulings imposing injunctions on enforcement of those orders. But I wanted to begin, actually, by stepping back from the heat of
the current crisis and looking, instead, at the idea of America. Well, what is the idea of America?
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