WASHINGTON: An influential Republican Congressman has told the House that US immigration policy has reached a breaking point and warned that failure to act could permanently alter the country's character.
Congressman Glenn Grothman from Wisconsin called immigration the single most important issue facing Congress and the White House. How it is handled, he said, will determine whether "America fundamentally changes or not."
Grothman said the scale of immigration, legal and illegal, is far larger than most Americans realise. "Right now in America, every year about 800, 000 people are naturalised, " he said. "We don't talk about that enough."