If we cannot control illegal immigration, we cannot sustain our national interest in legal immigration.
Barbara Jordan
The Public Record
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March 3, 2025
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
— Barbara Jordan
I would not, quote, 'be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.'
I cannot understand at what universe our leaders would not want to know who's a citizen and who's not.
We are here for one simple reason: The commonsense question of asking citizenship on the census.
Common Sense would be revolted if we engaged upon this process for petty reasons.
I would be the last person to claim that our Nation is perfect, but as a Nation we have a kind of perfection in us because our founding principle is universal. We are all created equal. People come from all over the world to take us up on…
What the people want is simple. They want an American as good as its promise.
the current process of employment verification has not functioned as the law intended to deter the hiring of undocumented aliens.





