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Floor Speech

Date: July 22, 2020
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Immigration

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Mr. BEYER. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of Judy Chu's NO BAN Act.

In the words of John Lewis: ``When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up; you have to do something.''

The NO BAN Act is doing something. It is stating in clear, powerful legislation that America will never again let racism or religious intolerance be a barrier to lawful immigration. We will not allow ignorance or xenophobia to dictate America's immigration policies.

Our strength has always--always--been our diversity.

A functional Muslim ban or a ban of entire countries simply because they comprise a race or a religion that some President does not like is not just evil, it is stupid. Watch which American communities recover most quickly from the pandemic--those with the most diverse populations.

Madam Speaker, I stand here today, as I stood at the airport at the onset of the ban, to ensure our immigration system cannot be hijacked by hatred.

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