Tom Tancredo: “Mr. Speaker, I will end this Special Order with just this last reference. It is to one thing that was written in a book…”

“Mr. Speaker, I will end this Special Order with just this last reference. It is to one thing that was written in a book called ``Who Are We?'' By Samuel Huntington. This has become I think one of the most important books written, and it just came out actually in May, but it is a fascinating analysis of this whole issue we are talking about in terms of trying to understand the merging of multiculturalism, this sort of cult of multiculturalism and the issue of massive immigration and the erosion of the concept of citizenship. Samuel Huntington puts it this way: ``The erosion of the difference between citizens and aliens, the overall declining rates of naturalization, and the naturalization spike of the mid 1990s, all suggest the central importance of material government benefits for immigrant decisions. Immigrants become citizens not because they are attracted to America's culture and creed, but because they are attracted by government social welfare and affirmative action programs. If these are available to noncitizens, the incentive for citizenship fades. Citizenship is becoming, in Peter Spiro's phrase, one more generally available `Federal social benefit.'...”