Tom Tancredo: “I sincerely appreciate the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) coming to the floor tonight, all of my colleagues…”

“I sincerely appreciate the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Gutknecht) coming to the floor tonight, all of my colleagues, because frankly I could not have said it better and especially the gentleman's last statement in regard to his constituents and others who were recent arrivals to the United States and stood up there with an American flag and saying God bless America and saying God bless them. Certainly, it is an interesting aspect when the gentleman talks about the idea of dual citizenships, the fact that someone cannot go to other countries and become a citizen, and it is very true that it is very difficult in many countries to become a citizen of that country. It is very easy here. Another interesting aspect of all of this is that there is another phenomenon we are witnessing with this massive influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal, but the ones that eventually become legalized. There are today as we stand here six million people in the United States that hold dual citizenships, that have either refused to relinquish at one point in time the citizenship of the country from which they came or chose later to accept a second citizenship.”