Nydia M. Velazquez said "On the question of the gentlewoman from California, the fact of the people who were, their files were requested to be with the INS, those surnames were Latino surnames. What kind of message are we sending to our Latino community? And yesterday on this floor there was the debate on the legislative branch where some of the Republicans were accusing us, the Democrats, of playing the race card. But how could you explain that, of all those who vote in California, the only names, the only voters that were requested to be proved by the INS were of Latino surnames?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJuly 29, 1997

On the question of the gentlewoman from California, the fact of the people who were, their files were requested to be with the INS, those surnames were Latino surnames. What kind of message are we sending to our Latino community? And yesterday on this floor there was the debate on the legislative branch where some of the Republicans were accusing us, the Democrats, of playing the race card. But how could you explain that, of all those who vote in California, the only names, the only voters that were requested to be proved by the INS were of Latino surnames?

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Nydia M. Velazquez

New York

Source

govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Addressing concerns about racial profiling in voter verification by the INS.

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