Mr. Speaker, just to make some closing remarks
before I yield back the balance of my time, Congress has to take action
now. We can't wait any longer for another 122 DREAMers every day, DACA
recipients, to become subject to deportation, and certainly can't get
to March where 800,000 of the DACA kids will lose their futures in
America and become subject to deportation. The issue of immigration and border security, all of these things are
among the thorniest issues in American life no matter where you go in
the country. But we are a nation of immigrants, and this is one way that we will
gauge the soul of this Congress and of this Nation and determine
whether we are going to continue to live up to the Nation that we
strive to be, which is a nation of immigrants, of people from different
countries who have made such a beautiful, incredible, strong and
powerful nation, have crafted that Nation together. And I would just remind those who are against the DACA kids, who
would argue for inaction, who argue that they should get the hell out
of here, that this country has been blessed throughout the generations
that people from every corner on Earth have wanted to come to the
United States of America. Fifty years ago, if you asked somebody who
was living in Europe or Asia or Latin America or anywhere else around
the world where on Earth they would want to go if they were going to
leave their home country, the answer 50 years ago was very clearly the
United States of America. There is a scarier day in this country than the day when everybody
wants to come here.
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