For my family and so many others, this became a deeply personal
fight. In July of 1964, a young Attorney General named Robert Kennedy
sat in front of the House Judiciary Committee. There, my grandfather
urged Congress to act on immigration reform. Our system, he said, ``is
a source of embarrassment to us around the world, it is a source of
anguish to many of our own citizens, it is a source of loss to the
economic and creative strength of our nation as a whole, it is
inconsistent with our principles and out of step with our history.''
The opposition that he and other advocates have faced half a century
ago sounds eerily familiar to so many of us today: Immigrants will
flood our cities and towns. They will take American jobs. They will
poison American culture.
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Immigrants will flood our cities and towns. They will take American jobs. They will poison American culture.
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