Lyndon Johnson actually said...

Under our old immigration law, even Christopher Columbus would have had a hard time getting into this country.

Remarks at the Verrazano Monument, Staten Island, New York

10/11/1966

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And the law I will sign tonight forbids it.

But it cannot continue.

We will achieve these goals because most Americans are law-abiding citizens who want to do what is right.

President Johnson expressed his admiration for the leadership which Costa Rican people have given over the years, by their example, to the a...