Political Quotes

“Let us not forget that these are real people in Brooklyn who are awaiting simple justice. I have to tell my colleagues that they are, in many ways, the classic American immigrant group, in that they came here freeing persecution. When they came here, they built synagogues on Ocean Parkway, they built yeshivas, they started businesses. Some of the clothing that we wear today was made by members of the Syrian Jewish community who have become such leaders in the apparel profession, among others. And they have, all that time, been tourists. Under the law, they have been tourists. They have been the longest present tourists in the history of the United States, arguably. They are the only tourist visas that the INS could tell me they have ever issued that had no end date.”