Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome under secretary of state, patrick kennedy, former secretaries of state [inaudible] [applause] good afternoon. It is my great pleasure to welcome everyone here today for the groundbreakinger is mopeny for the new United States Diplomacy Center. We are celebrating the start of construction of the center, a state of the art museum and educational resource that will ill straight the department of states 225year history of supporting our Nations National security efforts. As undersecretary of state for management, my office has long supported this project. I also suspect that i was asked to officiate today because i might be the only member of secretary kerrys Leadership Team who has actually worked for every single secretary of state in attendance, beginning with secretary kissinger. [applause] as a Career State Department employee, i have the privilege of representing the multitudes of civil and Foreign Service employees, americans and host nationals,
They came across the is a bean. So we have a long history of illegal immigration. The biggest period of that occurred from 19141918 when a Million People came from mexico during the mexican revolution and people sent their children here to get out of the violence of the various revolutionary factors. None of this is new. We can learn from what happened a hundred years ago. But again, we have to figure out what do we do with those that are here. We aint deporting them. It aint happening. I think you admitted that is probably not going to happen. So what do we do is the question . Did you want to talk about your own family background . There is nothing to say about the family background because the issue is not it is a historical fact that we have never had a secure border. We have never had a secure border. It is time to do it. Since 1848 we have not had a secure border. Its time to do it. Its time to do it. Any other questions . I see one . I want to make a statement that i think is pr
Is. That framed the 20062007 discussion. So just to cause right there again. During the debate less than a decade ago the real substantive discussion in the house of representatives was not whether they should be deported, and would assume they would all be deported from is also that they would all be found to be felons and criminals as we deported them. Now you advance the debate over the summer and one, the debate was being led enemies coordinated by leadership and the house of representatives. Thats a significant shift in ownership of the issue. You saw that in the first package of bills passed a bill to do with the Agricultural Workers come inside build to do with high skilled workers. And though we never got sort of, they never lifted the curtain on their final bill to deal with the children and undocumented, there was a complete absence from leadership and most of that party about deporting all 11 million. So to go from everyone being felons to just a question of everyone being a
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