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On the recordOctober 2, 1965
Once again, it stamps the mark of failure on a regime when many of its citizens voluntarily choose to leave the land of their birth for a more hopeful home in America.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration Bill, Liberty Island, New York

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