Mr. Speaker, I had an interesting meeting yesterday
with General Kelly. Twenty-five Members of Congress, almost all of whom
are descendants of immigrants who came here with nothing, whose parents
came here with nothing, sat down with the Chief of Staff of the
President of the United States. He said, basically, that we are the
wrong kind of people in America, and that people like our parents who
came here to this country really are bringing the country down. Because
when he says he is for a merit-based system, he is saying he is not for
my mom and my dad being able to come to this country. But interestingly enough, all of us who came to this country because
of a family-based immigration system wound up as being Members of the
U.S. House of Representatives. But he was saying: You know, I am meeting with a group of
Congressmen, and you really shouldn't be here because your parents
really are tearing the country apart and bringing it down.
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General Kelly believes that immigrants are bringing the country down.
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