Judd Gregg: “we are about to begin this week a very significant discussion, debate, and, hopefully, passage of some legislation to…”

“we are about to begin this week a very significant discussion, debate, and, hopefully, passage of some legislation to address what is one of the crucial public policy issues we have as a country, which is the question of how we handle immigration. We are, obviously, a nation which has been built on immigrants. Every one of us in this country, except for Native Americans, comes from a family that came from somewhere else and immigrated to this country. It is a part of our heritage of which we are most proud, the fact we have been able to assimilate cultures from around the world and bring them to the United States and create America. We should take pride in something that sets an example for the rest of the world to show that people can gather and can live together and can be productive and can produce a nation founded on democracy, freedom, liberty, individual rights, and heritage--heritage which has built a matrix of strength for us as a nation as we bring together peoples from different cultures and we form an America. E Pluribus Unum, the line above the Presiding Officer of the Senate, says it so well: From many, one.…”