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    This speech discusses immigration and the history of immigration in the United States. It notes that immigration is an issue that stirs strong passions and is important as it determines who can become citizens. It reminds the audience that most people in the US were once immigrants themselves or descended from immigrants. It describes several immigrant groups that came to the US throughout history, facing hardship but ultimately contributing to building the country through their daily lives and work. The speech stresses that being American is defined not by blood or birth alone, but by a commitment to US principles and the idea that people from anywhere can add new chapters to the American story.

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    This speech discusses immigration and the history of immigration in the United States. It notes that immigration is an issue that stirs strong passions and is important as it determines who can become citizens. It reminds the audience that most people in the US were once immigrants themselves or descended from immigrants. It describes several immigrant groups that came to the US throughout history, facing hardship but ultimately contributing to building the country through their daily lives and work. The speech stresses that being American is defined not by blood or birth alone, but by a commitment to US principles and the idea that people from anywhere can add new chapters to the American story.

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    This speech discusses immigration and the history of immigration in the United States. It notes that immigration is an issue that stirs strong passions and is important as it determines who can become citizens. It reminds the audience that most people in the US were once immigrants themselves or descended from immigrants. It describes several immigrant groups that came to the US throughout history, facing hardship but ultimately contributing to building the country through their daily lives and work. The speech stresses that being American is defined not by blood or birth alone, but by a commitment to US principles and the idea that people from anywhere can add new chapters to the American story.

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    OBAMA’s SPEECH CO SCRIPT

    The closer we get, the more emotional this debate is going to become. Immigration has

    always been an issue that inflames passions. That’s not surprising. There are few things

    that are more important to us as a society than who gets to come here and call our country

    home; who gets the privilege of becoming a citizen of the United States of America. That's

    a big deal.

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    When we talk about that in the abstract, it is easy sometimes for the discussion to take on

    a feeling of US VERSUS (VS) THEM. And when that happens, a lot of folks forget that

    most of us USED TO BE THEM. We forget that. And it’s really important for us to

    remember OUR HISTORY.

    Unless you’re one of the first Americans, a NATIVE AMERICAN, you came from some place

    else, somebody brought you”.

    The Irish who left behind a land of famine.(5) The Germans who fled persecution. (6) The

    Scandinavians who arrived eager to pioneer out west. (7) The Polish. The Russians. The

    Italians. The Chinese. The Japanese. The West Indians. (8) The huddled masses who

    came through Ellis Island on one coast and Angel Island on the other. (9)All those folks,

    before they were “us,” they were “them.” (10)

    They were the Einsteins (11) and the Carnegies. But they were also the millions

    of women and men whose names history may not remember,(12) but whose

    actions helped make us who we are (13); who built this country hand by hand,

    brick by brick.(14)

    “And when each NEW WAVE of immigrants arrived,(15) they faced RESISTANCE from

    those who were already here. They faced HARDSHIP. (16) They faced RACISM. They faced

    RIDICULE. (17) But over time, they went about their daily lives. They EARNED (=gagner

    de l’argent) A LIVING as they raised a family, as they built a COMMUNITY, as their kids

    went to school here. They did their part to BUILD THE NATION (19)

    They all came here knowing that what makes somebody an American is not just BLOOD OR

    BIRTH, but allegiance to our FOUNDING PRINCIPLES and the faith in the idea that

    ANYONE from ANYWHERE can write the next great chapter of OUR STORY, and that’s

    still true today.” (20)

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