In his speech at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Barack Obama did not make a distinction between legal and illegal immigration and compared illegal aliens to those people who immigrated legally to the United States through Ellis Island or other U.S. ports of entry.
In his speech, Obama referred to ?immigrants? six times and ?immigration? seven times and said the United States is a ?nation of laws.? But he did not use the words ?legal? or ?illegal? in his?speech.
?It can be tempting to think that those coming to America today are somehow different from us,? Obama said.??And we need to not have amnesia about how we populated this country.?
Obama said we should ?look at that migrant farmer and see our own grandfather disembarking at Ellis Island, or Angel Island in San Francisco Bay,? he said, ?and to look at that young mother, newly arrived in this country, and see our own grandmothers leaving Italy or Ireland or Eastern Europe in search of something better.?
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