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The Most Sacred Right (2020)

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The American Dream - A Liberal and Brotherly Welcome

In the middle of this speech, he makes a vigorous case for Chinese immigration. And here I hold that a liberal and brotherly welcome to all who are likely to come to the United States is the only wise policy which this nation can adopt. Do you ask if I favor such immigration, I answer, I would. They're the biggest civilization in the world. Would you have them naturalized and have them invested with all the rights of American citizenship? I would. It's so hopeful. You read it. God, it sounds like a multiculturalism manifesto from some school district in 1998 or it sounds like the mission and diversity statement of a university or a company today.

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